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Documentary about the hunt for the body of Richard III. When a skeleton was discovered under a Leicester council car park in September 2012, a battery of secret scientific tests was carried out to establish...
As we move towards the celebration of Twelfth Night, historian Jerry Brotton looks back at the meaning and power of Shakespearian mischief. For Shakespeare and his contemporaries festivals such as Twelfth...
Video recording of Aaron Posner’s 2011 staging of The Comedy of Errors. Videotaped for WAPAVA by George Karseboom.
Playwright Leo Butler talks to Aleks Sierz about his new work, One of These Days, a play commissioned by the RSC as part of the Complete Works Festival. Inspired by readings of The Tempest, the play is an...
Steven Berkoff, in a one-man show, explores and analyses some of Shakespeare’s most villainous characters - Iago, the Macbeths, Shylock, Richard III; characters who are inherently evil, others whose...
Poetry celebration of Shakespeare with focus on his sonnets and the use of poetry in his plays. Poetry readings by actors Ion Caramitru and Michael Pennington. The following sonnets and extracts were read at...
A version of the play in which the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to recreating a 16th-century performance. William Marshall is Othello.
Educational series. One in a twelve-part series of films made by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (now TV Ontario). The aim was to relate ‘Shakespeare’s timeless ideas and understanding...
Podcast hosted by Greg LaBlanc. When we read fiction, our brains are able to suspend our awareness of the fiction so we can fully immerse ourselves in the story we’re reading. When this happens, we are...
A Mercury Theatre production. Stage directions and scenes not recorded are narrated by Welles. The Mercury Text recording makes no attempt to re-create the Broadway production. Also includes Maurice Evans...
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