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Video lecture by Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University) who interprets the anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice via the framework provided by Frantz Fanon in his essay, ‘The Fact of Blackness’.
Podcast. Steven Sabel explores the writing and first production of Twelfth Night in the context of the so-called Shakespeare Authorship Question.
Video of a lecture from the Museum of London, originally streamed live. Actor and Shakespeare scholar Michael Pennington discusses the direct effect on the dramatist’s writing of the theatres he wrote for.
Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Ian McMillan is joined by children’s writer Jamila Garvin who presents her favourite writing on the subject of ‘Other...
Feature film. Alex (Sutton) has been using his growing accomplishments as an actor to hide from his true dream of writing - he wants to work alone, but fears the associated isolation and responsibility. His...
Recording of a lecture by Professor Ruth Gilligan in which she talks about the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown and the inspiration she drew in her work from Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station...
A lecture given by A.L. Rowse at the 1983 Cheltenham Literary Festival. Professor Rowse lectures on historical writing as a branch of literature using Shakespeare’s sonnets, Love’s Labour’s Lost and...
A post-colonial version of Othello transposed to a remote Madagascan fishing village. Abela condenses the action into five characters and little is spoken. Souli (Makena) is a poet, only writing for himself....
Radio broadcast. Verity Sharp visits the Royal Shakespeare Company to find out how a composer goes about writing incidental music for a stage production of a Shakespeare play.
Video recording of a discussion between actor Simon Russell Beale and Professor Carol Chillington Rutter (University of Warwick), introduced by Boika Sokolova.
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