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Interview series hosted by Bill Moyers. In this programme Moyers interviews West Indian poet and playwright, Derek Walcott. Among the topics discussed are the threats posed by poets to the establishment,...
Video lecture by Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University) who interprets the anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice via the framework provided by Frantz Fanon in his essay, ‘The Fact of Blackness’.
Brief video (a taster for Yad Vashem’s online course, ‘Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present’) in which Professor David Nirenberg looks at the historical and cultural roots of Shakespeare’s...
Recording of an online webinar, the sixth in a series examining Shakespeare and race. The event, focusing on Hamlet, is hosted Professor Farah Karim-Cooper and features Professor Ian Smith and actor Naeem...
Recording of an online webinar, the seventh in a series examining Shakespeare and race. The event, focusing on The Marchant of Venice, is hosted by Hahn Bui and features Professor Shaul Bassi and actor...
Radio broadcast. Coverage of the decision by the New Zealand government to cut its support for the annual secondary school Shakespeare Festival amid claims that the playwright’s work promotes a ‘canon of...
Documentary about Gareth Armstrong’s SHYLOCK, a one-person show written and performed by Armstrong and directed by Frank Barrie. Includes a backstage interview with Armstong in which he discusses the...
Joel Hurstfield, Astor Professor of English History at University College, London questions whether Marlowe and Shakespeare ever met a Jew? Professor Hurstfield asks this question in the light of The Jew of...
Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode one international directors talk about Shakespeare’s universal appeal. Peter...
Documentary. Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of The Merchant of Venice. Through a series of interviews, they examine the charge of...
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