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Neil Aldrich recites Shakespeare’s sonnets, and other works, speculating about the recitative convention employed in the 17th century. The delivery is rap-like, very different from the performance norm....
First in a series of 30-minute broadcasts highlighting scenes from Shakespeare’s plays performed by contemporary leading actors. This episode focuses on Romeo and Juliet. The series is arranged by Clemence...
Second in a series of 30-minute broadcasts showcasing scenes from Shakespeare’s plays performed by leading actors of the time. This episode focuses on three history plays, Henry V, Henry IV, Part 1 and...
Full cast audio comedy series about an organisation that helps people disappear. In this episode, members of the RSC in a production of Hamlet, forced to stay in character throughout, get in touch with the...
Morris Schreiber discusses Shakespeare’s art, characterisation, depth, themes, language, and significance for contemporary times.
Theatre historians, Farah Karim-Cooper and Tiffany Stern discuss the special effects deployed on stage in order to enhance the live experience within Elizabethan threatres.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2004 production of Macbeth. Directed by Dominic Cooke with Greg Hicks and Ruth Gemmell as the Macbeths.
Edwin Burr Pettet from Brandeis University discusses styles of acting and parodies Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy as it might have been delivered by Alleyn, Garrick, Kemble, Irving, Leslie...
29 of Shakespeare’s sonnets delivered by four young people (collectively and individually) in pastoral settingsas well as at the breakfast table, over the telephone, and as a stand-up comedy routine....
In 1990, the Mabou Mines theatre group worked to perform an abridged version of King Lear directed by Lee Breuer featuring gender-reversed roles and set in 1950s America. The film follows the director Lee...
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