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Radio drama written by Robert Nye and adapted from his own novel. A portrait of Shakespeare seen through the eyes of his wife, Anne Hathaway. Anne gives an account of the week she first visited William in...
Feature film. Drama set in the world of American ballet. Among the numerous ballet sequences is a scene from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, with choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.
Author and academic Germaine Greer discusses Anne Hathaway and the commonly held beliefs about her and her marriage to William Shakespeare. Chaired by biographer Jonathan Bate and introduced by Maggie...
Glen Tetley creates a new work, The Tempest, for Ballet Rambert. This is his first full-length ballet. The programme, presented by Kenneth Corden and narrated by Michael Oliver, shows the process from...
Video recording of John Hirsch’s 1969 staging of Hamlet for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Kenneth Welsh in the title role.
Starting in 1613, this is a biographical drama written by Ben Elton about the final years in the life of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon after the Globe Theatre burned to the ground. Kenneth...
Televised adaptation of the play set in the Regency period. Directed by David Giles and shot on location at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England. With Charles Gray and Janet Suzman.
An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by Janis Lull. Kenneth Branagh is Richard.
Documentary. Al Pacino, while in the process of staging a production of Richard III, explores in the film how the play took shape and tries to understand Shakespeare’s intention for it. He canvasses the...
Video recording of Brian Rintoul’s 1986 production of Henry VIII for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Leon Pownall in the title role and William Hutt as Wolsey.
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