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Discusses the ball scene, the balcony scene, the friar’s discourse on ‘grace and rude will’, the quarrel scene, the arguement between the Capulets and their daughter, Juliet’s feigned death, and the...
Radio programme. A selection of music performed by the Birmingham Studio Pianoforte Sextet is interspersed with performances of scenes from Hamlet (III iv), Macbeth (II i-ii), and The Merchant of Venice (IV...
Heavily cut radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced for broadcasting by Peter Watts. With Valentine Dyall in the title role. The chronicler (narrator) in this adaptation is Neanthes of...
Considers the place of the supernatural in a revenge drama; the strained atmosphere in the Danish court; Hamlet’s sense of a polluted and restricted environment; Polonius’ behaviour as father and...
Tape-filmstrip. Considers the wooing of Lady Anne, Clarence’s dream, the fall of Hastings, Richard’s appearance before the citizens, the tableau of lamentation, the second wooing scene, and the...
Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-line edited by Dina Iordanova and Stuart Cunningham (St Andrews Film Studies, 2012). 223 pages. ISBN 9780956373076 (paperback) £19.99. About the author: Dr William Brown...
Radio broadcast. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, starring with Sybil Thorndike as the Nurse. Narrator: George Hagan.
Discusses the significance of the fairy quarrel, the lovers’ wrangling, and Bottom’s enchantment. Among the scenes receiving detailed comment are the dispute between Oberon and Titania concerning the...
Deals with the literary and political context of the play. Focuses on key scenes which develop the ideas of kingship and honour. Considers the quarrel between Mowbray and Bolingbroke, Gaunt’s dying speech,...
Radio broadcast. Extracts (Act III Sc. i & Act IV sc. ii) from Henry VIII featuring Edith Evans as Katherine of Aragon.
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