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Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John Falstaff and investigates his role in Henry IV part 1. Lecture 11 in the Approaching Shakespeare series.
A reading of an abridged version of King Henry IV, Part 1 with Donald Wolfit as Falstaff.
An exploration of act 1, scene 1 of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", focuses on the wedding of Theseus who is impatient to marry the fair Hyppolyta. Closer scrutiny lays bare a match made in the aftermath of...
Looking in detail at the second Act of Henry VI and if someone other than Shakespeare contributed to this part of the play.
Looking in detail at the fourth Act of Henry VI and the coronation in Paris; also discusses the recent stage production of King Lear starring Glenda Jackson.
Looking at how the various points of conflict are set up in in the opening scene of Henry VI. Also explores forms of address and the use of ‘you’ versus ‘thee’ and ‘thou’.
An avant-garde, post-modernist film made at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offering ‘a visual exploration of epistemological puzzles in Hamlet’.
Ronald Knowles, University of Reading, and Sarah Wintle, University College London, discuss the play.
US late-night, sketch/satirical show conceived by and starring Demetri Martin. Each episode has a theme. In this sketch (c4 mins) William Shakespeare, Galileo and Benjamin Franklin try to woo a waitress in a...
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