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An introduction to Shakespeare and his times, focusing on the audience and actors in Shakespearean theatre and illustrating the historical context of the plays. Looks at what it was like to be in the...
Radio broadcast. Hamish Robertson talks to people involved in planned reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe in London and looks at the practical difficulties of rebuilding a sixteenth-century theatre...
Architecture series presented by Dr Peter Curran. This episode looks at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on London’s South Bank.
Slide set. A history from primitive mime and dance through to Victorian developments. Includes a section on Shakespeare and the Globe.
BBC schools broadcast imagining a visit to the ‘new’ theatre in Elizabethan London.
Images that place Shakespeare’s life and work in the context of his times. Includes detailed imaginative reconstructions of the Globe Theatre and Shakespeare’s London and shows the practical...
A sound recording of Barry Humphries’ (as Dame Edna Everage) 1976 one-man stage show Housewife, Superstar! at the Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Includes dialogue in which Dame Edna satirises...
Tape-slide. Shows the Globe’s early history, the names, location, shape, and uses of the stage areas, how the structure of the theatre directly affected Shakespeare’s plays, and the differences between...
By showing Londoners of various occupations visiting the Globe theatre during Elizabethan times, the film reveals the social life of the age, which is then related to the writings of Sir Thomas More, Richard...
Shows the boyhood of Shakespeare in Stratford and his career in London as actor and dramatist. Conveys impressions of the Elizabethan stage, particularly the Globe Theatre. There are short excerpts from...
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