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Series on literature presented by Robert Robinson. This episode includes an item in which Robinson introduces Judith Cook’s book Women in Shakespeare. An interview with historian and literary scholar A.L....
Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...
Harriet Walter reads an amended version of her contribution to the book Performing Shakespeare. This was the version intended by Walter for publication; the published book used an earlier, edited, verbatim...
Radio series. A five-part daily reading (4-8/10/2004) from Stephen Greenblatt’s book Will in the World investigating Shakespeare’s life, work and the times he lived in. Abridged by Miranda Davies. Read...
Ron Rosenbaum talks about his book The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups, published by Random House. Rosenbaum took seven years to research and write his book about...
Detective film. Nick Torrent (Morgan) owns a scrap of a priceless Shakespeare manuscript and wants to sell it; but then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane (Montgomery) is a rare book...
The story of how, 400 years ago, two actors and friends of William Shakespeare took on the task of saving his work for posterity in one book, the First Folio. Interviewees include Professor Emma Smith,...
Sound recording. A selection of readings by Helge Kökeritz from his book of the same name. "This record is an attempt to reconstruct the pronunciation used by William Shakespeare at the height of his...
Radio programme. Continuing a celebration of funny books and funny writers. In this episode actress Fiona Shaw joins John Mullan, Professor of Literature at UCL, to explore the impact of Shakespearean and...
Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....
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