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Six programmes, broadcast daily, in which Simon Callow explores the hidden meaning of the Sonnets by following a radical reordering by John Padel. Believing that the W.H. is William Herbert, it suggests that...
Radio programme in which presenter J. Isaacs considers what solid addition to our knowledge has been made by research in the various fields of Shakespearean scholarship.
The American actor James Marsters - known inter alia for playing Spike on the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel - discusses Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Verdi’s opera in a new production by Graham Vick.Renato Bruson and Maria Guleghina are the Macbeths. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala are conducted by Riccardo Muti.
Shostakovich’s opera broadcast live from the New York Metropolitan Opera and directed by Graham Vick. Maria Ewing is Katerina and Vladimir Galusin is Sergei, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra are...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the 1987 Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Cymbeline. Directed by Bill Alexander with Harriet Walter as Imogen.
Webcast. Shakespeare was fascinated with family dynamics, often using them to fuel his plots with familial jealousy, lust, murder, mistaken identity and long-lost siblings. Many of his works share characters...
Shakespeare’s poem read in two parts by Robert Donat.
US anthology arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The final item in the programme (42 minutes) offers interpretations of Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘To be, or not to be’, with players from the Stratford...
Fiction film. The first filmed version of Hamlet to be produced in England. For a detailed account of the complicated provenance of this film see Ball, especially pp.318-20.
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