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Professor Barbara Hardy, Birkbeck College, University of London, and Dr John Sutherland, University College London, discuss the women in Shakespeare’s plays. Track 1: Revolution and Submission. Track 2:...
Feature film. A heroic comic fantasy about an artist’s destiny at the tumultuous time of social transformation three years after the October Revolution. In a town square, a solo-performance based on...
Animation. A fictional account of 400 years of the history of England in a series of tableaux, from the feudal communities of the Middle Ages, through the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the merchants...
News item. Shakespeare is being performed in China again after 10 years of exile during the cultural revolution. Chinese audiences are flocking to see King Lear (Li-Ya Wang) portrayed as a Chinese warlord....
Short video series in which Shakespeare academics and students talk to camera about an aspect of Shakespeare’s work. The aim is to persuade foreign students to study Shakespeare in Britain. Ewan Fernie is...
Radio documentary. Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, examines Shakespeare’s indoor playhouse, the immensely influential but now little-known Blackfriars Theatre. He...
Documentary. Michael Wood tells the story of Shakespeare’s mother, Mary Arden in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden was the daughter of a Warwickshire farmer, but...
Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...
A videorecording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 2007 production of The Merchant of Venice directed by Rebecca Gatwood with John McEnery as Shylock.
The Yiddish Theatre in Moscow flourished during the cultural renaissance that followed the Russian Revolution. Two of the moving forces behind the theatre were Solomon Mikhoels and Benjamin Zuskin,...
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