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David Hare and Martha Kearney on deviant psychology and fancy dress in Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. The episode includes the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet (7 mins) enacted by Sarah Churchill and John O’Hare.
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite pieces of Shakespeare. In this episode playwright David Hare chooses a speech from Macbeth (Act 3 Sc 1) as the piece of Shakespeare...
Television anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. Programme on the staging of King Lear around a rehearsal in the National Theatre of David Hare’s production with Anthony Hopkins in the title...
Animation. The credits appear over a blasted heath. A young Shakespeare walks thoughtfully along, quill in hand, stuck on page one of Macbeth. He comes across an intriguing scene and hides behind a tree. He...
Live audio recording of David Hare’s 1987 production of King Lear with Anthony Hopkins as Lear.
A reading of an abridged version of Othello with John Gielgud in the title role and Ralph Richardson as Iago.
Professor Tony Davies, former head of the Department of English at Fort Hare University in South Africa and Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez, senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Malaga,...
A largely fictionalised black comedy based on the activities of the eponymous grave robbers. In this version of events, one of the motivations for the criminal actions of William Burke (Simon Pegg) is his...
Online exhibition, curated by Daniel Rosenthal, telling the story of Shakespeare at the National Theatre through eight landmark productions. It illuminates the work of directors and experience of actors and...
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