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Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. The fourth programme is delivered by Preti Taneja. Fitzpatrick, post-doctoral research fellow in Global Shakespeare at Queen Mary, University of London,...
Fiction film of Macbeth containing at least 17 sequences with the focus on the first half of the play. Shot largely in the studio, the film was not well received by the trade papers and its censorship by...
Anthology arts series. In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was censored and in the 18th century Tate gave King Lear a happy ending. The programme debates the line between interpretation and vandalism.
Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...
Video recording of a live seminar held online over Zoom starting with a half hour presentation by Páraic Finnerty (University of Portsmouth) on American poet Emily Dickinson’s engagement with...
Radio programme. Two writers relate tales from abroad. Julian Barnes describes thespian adventures in the American heartland. Christopher Hope in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rich describes high...
Documentary. Former members of the 10th Regiment of the outlawed Communist Party of Malaya, now living in exile as farmers in Thailand on the Narathuwat-Kelantan border, tell their story of the decades-long...
Peter Hall talks about his life and work. The video is presented in 5 parts divided into 40 segments (or stories) of about 4 minutes each. Sir Peter Hall talks about his early life, life at Cambridge...
Film which tells the story of a theatre group in a fictional country resembling Thailand that is staging a production of Macbeth. One of the film’s characters is a dictator named ‘Dear Leader’ who...
Fiction film. A version of The Merchant of Venice directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber. Reviewed by Hanford C. Judson in Moving Picture World (February 14) with the heading ‘Full of Dignity...
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