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Four dramas exploring some of the themes from King Lear, including the relationship between Lear and his daughters and Gloucester and his sons. They take the form of two plays, each in two parts. The Mistake...
A production for schools of the rarely performed uncut text, in an Italian Renaissance setting. The performance is divided into eight 26-minute sections, for ease of use in the classroom. Young students 13+...
16-part television series, presented by John Gielgud, on the history of poetry in the English language. This episode follows Shakespeare’s development as dramatist and poet. Presents extracts from Romeo...
A television production of the play, originally in six separate episodes, with Patrick Magee as Lear.
Documentary. Wilfred Pickles visits Stratford upon Avon and brings to the studio some of the people he met there who talk about the town, tourism and the theatre.
Podcast of a Thursday lecture held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Professor Alison Shell talks about the deployment of palinodes (recantations) and the idea of reversal and repentance...
Set of colour slides of Shakespeare-related scenes in and around Stratford-upon-Avon, including Shakespeare’s birthplace, Hall’s Croft, Mary Arden’s house and Anne Hathaway’s cottage. Also...
Travelogue. Scenes of Stratford-upon-Avon including Shakespeare’s birthplace, Holy Trinity Church, the Grammar School, a mulberry tree at New Place said to have been planted by Shakespeare, Anne...
Features the five Shakespearean properties and interviews historians who describe the town of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Two programmes made in Stratford-on-Avon and London looking at Shakespeare’s life and the environment in which he wrote his plays. C. Walter Hodges talks about Elizabethan theatre, Professor John Russell...
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