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Radio programme featuring a pastoral sequence from Shakespeare’s plays, songs and sonnets, prefaced by Sonnet 18 from which the title is derived. Includes scenes from As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s...
BBC Proms concert live from the Royal Albert Hall. In the second half the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs a semi-staged performance of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream conducted by...
Asking ‘what happens in As You Like It’, this lecture considers the play’s dramatic structure and its ambiguous use of pastoral, drawing on performance history, genre theory, and eco-critical approaches.
Dr Keith Walker, University College London, and Dr Isobel Armstrong, University of Leicester, discuss the play.
Jealousy decimates a reunion between old friends, a once happy marriage and the childhood of a princess.
Podcast series. in this edition, husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss The Winter’s Tale, which they describe as follows: What do you get when you combine three acts of a tragedy, two acts of a...
Podcast created, produced and hosted by American actors Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp, two self-confessed ‘Shakespeare nerds’ who devote multiple episode to analysing the Bard’s work. In this...
5-part Radio documentary series. Samuel West and Dr Andrea Smith present a guide to Shakespeare productions produced by BBC Radio since its inception in 1922. 2. This episode looks at the pastoral comedies...
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....
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1986 production of The Winter’s Tale. Directed by Terry Hands with Penny Downie as Hermione/Perdita and Jeremy Irons as...
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