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Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John Falstaff and investigates his role in Henry IV part 1. Lecture 11 in the Approaching Shakespeare series.
Following the loss of England’s French territories, Henry VI is plagued by power struggles, insubordination and threats to his monarchy. Part of a trilogy of plays, Emma Smiths asks whether it’s still...
Feature film. A history of the catastrophic charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, 1854. Includes a scene from Macbeth at a London theatre, where Macbeth meets the witches for the second time...
Feature film. A parable set in a fictitious West African country rent by 10 years of tribal conflict between the ruling Nayak and the rebel Bonande. The director has stated that she saw Shakespearean...
Radio performance of the balcony scene (II ii) of Romeo and Juliet. Starring Nova Pilbeam and Alec Guinness, this was the first star production of the war.
Feature film. ‘Comedy based on the characters created by Bruce Bairnsfather. Old Bill, in the trenches during the First World War, eats tinned lobster and dreams that he and his friends travel back in time...
Australian radio series looking at all aspects of language. In this edition, Dr Charles Edelman, author of A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Military Language (Athone Press, 2001) talks to presenter Jill...
Play based on The Merchant of Venice. Set among the black and Jewish populations in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., where passions simmer and societies realign, District Merchants is a tale of money,...
British Radio host Simon Mayo talks to Barbara Bogaev about his novel, Mad Blood Stirring, which is based on the true story of England’s first all-black production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet,...
A discussion recorded on the eve of the transmission of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The War of the Roses between stage director Peter Hall, John Barton who adapted the plays, and Michael...
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