BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
A live telecast from the American Hallmark Hall of Fame series. Maurice Evans is Prospero and Richard Burton is Caliban.
Television series based on the 1980 film of the same name which, using drama and music, follows the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. In this episode...
Talk by Ormerod Greenwood on the reception of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Includes passages from Voltaire, Nase, Hazlitt, and Joyce, which are read by Leonard Sachs and Harold Scott.
Feature film. Satirical comedy commenting on greed and fame and what people are prepared to do for money. Laurence Harvey plays a famous Shakespearean who, after being paid to do so by Peter Sellers,...
Video of the sixth and final lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate looks at how Shakespeare immortalised figures from ancient...
Television production of the play filmed at Hermitage Castle in the Highlands of Scotland. Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson are the Macbeths.
Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. PhD candidate Hailey Bachrach discusses the complexity of the characters and the fact that this may have been the play that established Shakespeare’s fame.
Television production of Edward Bond’s stage play. Set in 1615 it shows an aged and weary Shakespeare in retirement in Stratford. He is disillusioned, pondering on life and fame and seeing nothing but...
Radio programme that attempts to trace what is really known about William Shakespeare’s life. With comments from "literary sleuths and historians, biographers and directors who trace the story of the Bard...
Television production of the play directed for stage by George Schaefer and for NBC by Albert McCleery with Maurice Evans in the title role. Heralded as a major cultural invasion into the world of commercial...
Learning on Screen