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A radical re-imagining of the story of Hamlet by Tamsin Oglesby. Rising political star, Harriet (Jeany Spark), is consumed by the question of how to avenge the rape of her sister.
Feature film. A heavily abridged version of the play with emphasis on the scenes between Antony and Cleopatra. Much of the political plot and some of Enorbarbus’ lines are omitted. A narrator explains...
Peter Hollindale, University of York, and Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham ask whether this play enacts ‘the education of a prince’. Prince Hal is considered in relation to Falstaff and...
Television documentary. A record of the English Shakespeare Company’s touring Macbeth production in Malawi under Hasting Banda’s dictatorship. The production was directed by Michael Bogdanov and played...
Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode two Kustow examines the political uses of Shakespeare, particularly under...
Video of the fourth lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate examines how Shakespeare looked at Roman political models and the...
Terence Hawkes (University College Cardiff) and W. Moelwyn Merchant (University of Exeter) describe Richard III as one of Shakespeare’s most modern plays in its political consciousness and interpretation....
Deals with the literary and political context of the play. Focuses on key scenes which develop the ideas of kingship and honour. Considers the quarrel between Mowbray and Bolingbroke, Gaunt’s dying speech,...
Documentary about the first Israeli/Palestinian co-production of Romeo and Juliette in Jerusalem. produced by Eran Baniel and Awad Fouad. The project took several years to complete and allowed the...
In his new book, "London’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers and Money in Shakespeare’s City", Stephen Alford reveals the enormous transitions underway in London during the preiod when Shakespeare lived...