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Radio talk in which M. R. Ridley discusses the object of the Third Programme’s Festival of Shakespeare’s history plays, all of which he has arranged for broadcasting. He explains the method he has used...
Educational videotape. A teacher and pupil travel back in time to 1609 to interview Shakespeare over lunch at the Mermaid Tavern. They question him about the writing and performance of his plays - including...
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss fact and fiction in Shakespeare’s historical plays Henry VI (parts 1, 2 and 3) and Richard III, exploring how they vary from historical fact and...
Podcast. Steven Sabel discusses the implications of the authorship of the Shakespeare plays being misattributed with Julie Sandys Bianchi, Robert Meyers, and Hank Whittemore.
In this 2-minute phonogramme sample, recorded by Fritz Hauser in 1906, the 80-year old German actor and long-standing star of the Vienna Burgtheater, Bernhard Baumeister, declaims Falstaff’s speech from...
Geoff Hemstedt, lecturer at the University of Sussex, discusses with two English teachers the difficulties of teaching Hamlet to ‘A’ level students. The discussion centres on the length, the language,...
Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidy White discuss the first act of the first part of the Henriad and focus primarily on how the main characters are introduced in their historical context.
Historian Dr Ian Grimble draws on Irish, Scottish and English records for an account of the historical background to the Macbeth story.
Podcast. An interview with Dr. Paul Edmondson, of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, on his role as historical consultant on All Is True, Kenneth Branagh’s 2018 film about the last years in the life of...
A lecture given by A.L. Rowse at the 1983 Cheltenham Literary Festival. Professor Rowse lectures on historical writing as a branch of literature using Shakespeare’s sonnets, Love’s Labour’s Lost and...
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