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Elizabethan England: Its Drama, Music and Sounds (1967 Audio)

Selections of Elizabethan music and readings from Elizabethan plays (including Shakespeare) and other literature. Readings by Michael Redgrave, Dorothy Tutin and others. The Purcell Consort of Voices and the...

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In Pursuit of Plays (1994 Television)

Series

Will’s World

Director

Steven Clarke

Final programme in the series on life in Elizabethan England. Sandi Toksvig takes a cab round London in search of Elizabethan theatre.

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Macbeth: The Movie (2006 Video)

Director

Fleur Howie

Producer

Fleur Howie

Three abridged versions of Macbeth, with different edits, which let the audience decide: Why did Macbeth do it? Filmed inside a 1599 virtual Globe Theatre in London. Elizabethan Version Act I Scene i....

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Surfeit of Meate and Drynke, A (1994 Television)

Series

Will’s World

Third in the series of programmes on Elizabethan England. Cookery writer and chef Prue Leith discusses Elizabethan cuisine.

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This Orient Isle. Episode 5 (2016 Radio)

Series

Book of the Week

Producer

David Roper

Radio broadcast. Professor Jerry Brotton examines Queen Elizabeth I’s fascination with the Orient and Britain’s first contacts with the Muslim world. Read by Derek Jacobi. 5: How the London stage...

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Elizabethan Childhood (2015 Television)

Series

My Story

Director

Jaqui McAlpine

Producer

Jaqui McAlpine

Pre-school history series. Grandad Harvey takes Asher on a journey of discovery to find out what life was like for a child during Elizabethan times. Dressing up in magnificent Elizabethan costumes, they...

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Take Your Choice: Twelfth Night (1937 Radio)

Series

Experimental Hour

Producer

Mary Hope Allen; Barbara Burnham

Act 1, Scene 5 of Twelfth Night is played first in modern English pronounciation and then in what is conjectured to be Elizabethan English. In the Elizabethan version the women’s parts are spoken by male...

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Shakespeare and Macbeth (2007 Multimedia)

aka: William Shakespeare and Life in Elizabethan England

CD ROM providing a visual and educational insight into Shakespeare’s life in Elizabethan England. Illustrated with photographs of buildings (aerial and ground shots) in and around Stratford-upon-Avon with...

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William Poel and the Elizabethan Stage Society (1987 Multimedia)

Series

Theatre in Focus

Slide set. Photographs of William Poel’s productions, especially those which he mounted for the Elizabethan Stage Society between 1893 and 1905. Also illustrations showing both how Poel’s work was...

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Regimen of Health, A (1994 Television)

Series

Will’s World

Director

Deborah Wignall

Fourth in the series of programmes on life in Elizabethan England. Doctors Phil Hammond and Tony Gardner discuss remedies in Elizabethan England including the use of leeches.

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