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A series studying the history of theatre. This programme examines attempts by characters in Henry VIII to play power games. Introduced by Niccolo Machiavelli, scenes from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII depict...
Second of three television talk show specials dedicated to 3 major themes in Shakespeare’s plays: love, power and death. In this episode, presenter Thea Dorn discusses with management consultant Gertrud...
Radio broadcast. Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith are the readers in a sequence of texts and music inspired by one of Shakespeare’s favourite themes: the power of royalty and monarchy as a metaphor...
An edited version of Roman Polanski’s Macbeth, narrated by Orson Welles, which follows the dramatic chain of event precipitated by Macbeth’s killing of Duncan. Shakespeare’s treatment of power and...
Last of three television talk show specials dedicated to 3 major themes in Shakespeare’s plays: love, power and death. In this episode, presenter Jörg Thadeusz discusses with crime novelist Andrea...
Video recording of a version of Romeo and Juliet for young people adapted by Ben Power.
Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. This edition looks at the Women and Power festival and the Globe’s staging of Henry IV (parts 1 and 2) and Henry V, in which Hotspur, Falstaff...
Video podcast. The lecture by Jonathan Bate celebrates Shakespeare’s immortality on the exact 400th anniversary of his burial. It begins with Theseus’ speech in A Midsummer Night’s Dream about the...
Professor Frank Kermode, Professor of English at Columbia University, New York City, examines one of Shakespeare’s most prominent concerns - the connection between morality and power - with reference to...
Video recording of Ben Power’s play which takes Romeo and Juliet as a starting point for a story about two older lovers. Though the words are all Shakespeare’s, the scenes have been shuffled and speeches...
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