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From the depression of Hamlet to the guilt of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s work has many references to mental health. Academics and actors at Warwick Arts Centre explore issues such as depression,...
Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 2: Confronted by the increasingly maddening (and mad) behaviour of her boyfriend, a nineties Ophelia discusses the nature of...
Professor Carol Rutter questions Professor Nick Dale from Warwick Medical School as to whether the state of mind and behaviour of Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scene are neurologically accurate.
Independent short. The story follows a schizophrenic patient (Andrew Mills), who takes on the character of Iago from Othello and tries to bring its story to life re-imagined for the present day through the...
Video recording of an experimental staging of Hamlet. There are three Hamlets in the production, sometimes taking turns, sometimes together on stage reflecting Hamlet’s schizophrenia. The arrangement...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir interviews Benjamin Reiss, a professor in the English department at Emory University and the author of Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and...
An introduction to Shakespearean tragedy through an examination of key scenes from four of the plays. It shows how Shakespeare explores the minds - often under intolerable stress - of his characters, with...
Feature film. An oedipal mystery melodrama informed by Hamlet. A young man named Guan Jin (TA Chung Wa) walks into a police station, offering information about a 10-year-old murder. He says that the victim...
Documentary film by Carla Degenhardt and Barbara Unger-Wiplinger offering impressions from the staged everyday life of protagonist Hiltraud Schmidt, a sufferer from a neurological disease and her partner,...
Feature film which made its own myths as the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra was lived in real-life in the well-publicised Burton-Taylor romance. The hugely expensive sets, and Taylor’s protracted...
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