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This podcast is presented by Ben Lawrence and is a collaboration between The Telegraph and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). This episode looks at Lady Macbeth and the witches and features director Polly...
To escape his controlling siblilng, a Shakespeare fan with Down Syndrome leaves Australia to have an adventure in Tokyo and prove that he can live independently.
Video podcast. Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. Ben Jonson wrote in 1623 that Shakespeare ‘art a Moniment, without a tombe/ And art alive still,...
Television version of the play adapted and directed by Rupert Goold. Ben Whishaw is King Richard and Rory Kinnear is Bolingbroke.
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by J. Bussell. The cast includes Leslie Perrins as Don John, D. A. Clarke-Smith as Benedick and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Beatrice. The New Georgian Trio is...
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,...
Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...
The Merchant of Venice set in contemporary California and focusing on the relationship between Bassanio and Antonio. The film is a modern re-telling of the play - a Jewish woman is raped in broad daylight...
Audio drama by Kimi Handa Brown. This post-modern play imagines what happened next to assorted characters from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The...
An intelligent and meditative interpretation emphasising class distinctions and sexual confusion, which ‘has dated better than most...and which captures the shadowy magic of the play well’ (The Guardian...
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