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A personal introduction to the play by actor Michael Hordern, who played Prospero in the BBC TV Shakespeare production.
Experimental short film about climate change. An interpretation of scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream including ‘Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania’ (II i). The film uses Shakespeare’s verse...
A personal introduction to the play and its characters by Michael Redgrave.
Television documentary. Derek Jacobi narrates a documentary that progresses from the Hamlet production of the Old Vic Theatre Company in Japan to a brief consideration of some the Shakespeare productions in...
A personal introduction to the play by Emrys James, who played the title role at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1974.
A personal introduction to the play and its qualities by Sara Kestelman, who played Lady Macbeth in the 1983 Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Barbican, London.
A personal introduction to the play by Dorothy Tutin, who played Viola in Peter Hall’s production of the play at Stratford in 1958.
A personal introduction to the play by Barbara Jefford, who talks of her experience of playing Cleopatra in various productions.
A personal introduction to the play by Tony Church, who played the role of Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974-5.
A personal introduction to the play and its characters by Timothy West, who played Shylock in the 1980 Old Vic production of the play.