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The last in a series of radio talks on Shakespeare is given by George Rylands, author of Words and Poetry (1928), and focuses on the meaning of Shakespeare’s diction and style.
Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode, the last in the series, looks at Shakespeare’s late plays, the ones Coleridge dubbed ‘romances’ including Cymbeline, The...
Professor A.D. Nuttall examines how, in his last plays Shakespeare turns to the world of fairy tale in contrast to the realism of his earlier works.
Compilation of sketches from the series. Includes a one minute skit in which Aimi MacDonald recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy whilst tap dancing. Next week Aimi promises King Lear.
Feature film. An ageing Shakespearean actor (Bachchan) is gravely ill, the rigours of a film shoot having left him in a coma. His co-star, Shabnam (Zinta), is deeply worried, but their director, Siddharth...
Feature film derived from the stage rock musical Hair about a group of hippies whose beliefs run counter to the traditional American 1960s morality. Two songs make reference to Shakespeare’s plays - What a...
Loreena McKennit’s album includes ‘Prospero’s Last Speech’ where McKennitt sings the epilogue. The song can be listened to on the Amazon.com site.
Last in a series of ten educational radio programmes in which various aspects of Shakespeare’s life and work are discussed by scholars and theatre practitioners with illustrative excerpts from his plays...
Podcast. Steven Sabel discusses Shakespeare’s last will and yestament with Bonner Miller Cutting and Professor Don Rubin.
Television documentary. The first episode in a six-part series in which director Richard Eyre gives his personal view on the history of the theatre in the twentieth century. Eyre considers the enduring...
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