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Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...
Professor Emma Smith talks to Claire Armitstead about her new book about Shakespeare’s plays, This Is Shakespeare.
In this edition Emma Smith lectures on the spoiler-chorus, in an already-too-familiar play.
Children’s puppet show. Phillip and Zoe audition for Romeo and Juliet selecting the balcony scene. Phillip is unsuccessful as he is too interested in Gordon’s crossword. Gordon does a very good Romeo.
Scenes from Shakespeare read by John Gielgud and Pamela Brown. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet. What lady’s that, which doth enrich the hand (I v); He jests at scars that never felt a wound (II ii); Wilt thou...
Shakespeare’s plays and poems set to music by Joseph Summer with Alan Schneider, tenor; Maria Ferrante, soprano; Elem Eley, baritone; Ja-Nae Duane, mezzo-soprano; Barbara Shepherd, French horn; Miroslav...
Television arts documentary. Michael Hordern talks about the role of Prospero. He speaks of the challenges that the role presents, emphasising Prospero’s humility and compassion. He fears the dangers of...
Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to Dee Ryan about her play Broadguess, a one-person comedy in which a hard-boiled Elsinore detective gets too close to some mysterious deaths amongst the Danish royal family...
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’.
Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. This editiontackles some of the issues that can make Shakespeare’s work seem too remote, difficult, inaccessible or even elitist to...
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