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Radio programme. Shakespeare’s poem read by Douglas Leach. Includes a talk by Bonamy Dobrée, Professor of English Literature at Leeds University, England.
Professor Philip Brockbank, University of Birmingham, and Alan Sinfield, University of Sussex, discuss the play and its tragic implications in the context of Elizabethan thought.
Radio biography of Shakespeare’s father written and produced by David Lytton, who reconsiders the story from historical evidence. No further information known (3/2008).
Extract of the poem read by Peggy Ashcroft, with an introduction written by George Rylands.
Radio programme in which presenter John Stevens talks about the part music played in the drama of Shakespeare and some of his contemporaries.
Video recording of the lecture by Russell Jackson (Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham). He discusses his work on preparing Shakespeare text for various productions...
Newsreel item. Nurses and wounded soldiers at Bournbrook Military Hospital in Birmingham watch an open-air production of Twelfth Night.
Radio broadcast. Lewis Casson traces the influence of William Poel’s Shakespearean productions on the modern method of presenting Shakespeare and poetic drama in general.
Reflecting on his travels and encounters around the Arab world, ‘New Generation Thinker’ Islam Issa (Birmingham City University) discusses how canonical English writers (Shakespeare and Milton) creep...
Full-length radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by Howard Rose. The script of the broadcast has been edited by M. R. Ridley. With Donald Wolfit, Sonia Dresdel, Robert Eddison and Harry...
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