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Video podcast presenting an analysis of political and legal developments in late Elizabethan England and their representation in Shakespeare’s plays, focusing on contemporary debates concerning the powers...
Twenty four lectures in which Susan Sage Heinzelman of the University of Teaxas at Austin talks about literature and the law. Three of the lectures are on justice in The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure...
Symposium sponsored jointly by Hofstra University Law School and the Law and Humanities Institute. Susan W. Tiefenbrun moderates. The proceedings, consist of several segments: the performance of the trial...
Feature film based on Romeo and Juliet. The family feuds between the Chus and the Laws are aggravated by the romance between Chu Lai-Ngo and Law Mo-yin. Chu fakes her death to evade an arranged marriage....
The trial of Richard III, who was accused of murdering the princes in the Tower. The trial takes place in a reconstructed Old Bailey courtroom with the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Elwyn Jones, as Judge. Two...
In this short radio programme, solicitor and scholar Anthony Julius, lecturer of law and literature at University College, London, discusses whether a case of plagiarism can be made when linked to a creative...
US interview show. Jude Law talks to Charlie Rose about his performance as Hamlet. The show, directed by Michael Grandage, transferred to Broadway from the Donmar Theatre, London. The programme begins with...
David Tennant talks about Hamlet, the play and the character. Tennant advises actors playing the role to "rid yourself of the baggage and tell the story". Excerpts: HAMLET (1948). d. Olivier HAMLET (1990)...
Podcast. Professor Christopher Pye discusses sovereignty in King Lear relating it to autonomy, the self, the state, and the world. Focusing on Cordelia’s ‘nothing’ and Edgar’s ‘I nothing am’, he...
Gareth Lloyd Evans, Univesity of Birmingham, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. If this is a ‘problem play’, how do we define the ‘problem’? The speakers lay...