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Arts strand of the televison documentary series, THIS WEEK. An 18 minute item contains scenes from Barbara Garson’s satirical play MacBird (a skit on Lyndon B. Johnson). MacBird learns from a fruit machine...
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...
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...
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...
Radio series. Second in a series of lectures by the actor John Bell. Here he looks at how power politics are reflected in Shakespeare’s work.
Animated film using paper cut-outs. The film is a satirical comment in favour of pacifism. Romeo and Juliet are children of feuding families who duel with modern implements of war including bombs and tanks....
Dr Martin Coyle and Michael Quinn, both of University College Cardiff, discuss the play.
Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield talk about their co-edited work Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultrural Materialism. Recorded at the National Humanities Centre, North Carolina.
Recording of an on-stage conversation held as part of the 2022 Aspen Ideas Festival between Oskar Eustis (The Public Theater) and James Shapiro (Columbia University), moderated by Erika Mallin (Aspen...
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...
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