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Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. This episodes includes a 5 minute item showing a rehearsal for King Lear with director Peter Brook. composer Virgil Thomson and Natasha Parry as Cordelia. The...
Two-part reworking of Shakespeare’s Richard II. Adapted for radio by Peter Thomson and directed by Lucy Hackney. No further information known.
Radio play about a father and son making a pilgrimage to Stratford, obsessed with finding memorabilia of Shakespeare.
Peter Hollindale, University of York, and Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham ask whether this play enacts ‘the education of a prince’. Prince Hal is considered in relation to Falstaff and...
Dr D.J. Palmer, University of Hull, and P. W. Thompson, University of Exeter, discuss the play.
Peter Hollindale, University of York, and Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham, discuss the play. They consider Shakespeare’s dramatisation of historical process and of the psychology of a diverse...
Video recording of Derek Goldby’s 1982 production of Julius Caesar for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. James Bradford is Julius Caesar and R.H. Thomson is Mark Antony.
Terence Hawkes (University College Cardiff) and W. Moelwyn Merchant (University of Exeter) describe Richard III as one of Shakespeare’s most modern plays in its political consciousness and interpretation....
The play is placed in the context of comedy as an art form. Its structure is analysed as a progression from strife to communal happiness and from a set of opposites to reconcilation and harmony. Key...
Video recording of Richard Rose’s 1997 production of The Taming of the Shrew for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. The play is set in the Little Italy area of New York City in the 1960s and...
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