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Political advertisement. One in a series of commercials in the ‘Stevenson for President’ campaign that featured actual and fictional people voting for Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 American Presidential...
Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. Globe associate director Sean Holmes discusses what ‘radical optimism’ means in his new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream - is just...
Anthology arts series. The programme examines how the ideas which Shakespeare’s play addresses (tyranny, ambition, power) have resonances in twentieth and twenty-first century politics and political...
Tape-slide. Illustrates Shakespeare’s personal and political environments, how they may have influenced his work, and some of the major events during his years as an actor, poet, and playwright....
Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh talks to James Shapiro about his book, Shakespeare in a Divided America. They discuss how Shakespeare’s work has been both a common ground but also used as a political tool as...
Podcast. Gabriel Geagea and doctoral candidate Nicolas McAfee discuss his doctoral thesis on the depiction of power, the powerful and politics in Shakespeare’s plays. Works discussed include Henry VIII and...
Independent fiction short. "T’o have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" (Hamlet Act 3 Sc i). The painting of Ophelia by John Everett Millais, is used as a metaphor for Kashmir, a country caught...
This six-episode podcast miniseries looks at the political currents that influenced Shakespeare and how they apply to the world today. Hosted by Isaac Butler. Othello isn’t just a play about race, toxic...
Podcast created, produced and hosted by American actors Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp, two self-confessed ‘Shakespeare nerds’ who devote multiple episode to analysing the Bard’s work. In this...
Illuminates the play’s central themes and characters. Examines the further establishment of Falstaff as, amongst other things, an emblem of disorder. Poses the question as to whether permanent political...
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