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Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and literary critics Harold Bloom and Jacqueline Rose discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare and Bloom’s claim that personality, as we understand it...
Lecture. Literary critic and author of ‘Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human’, Harold Bloom expounds on Yahweh, Hamlet, Cleopatra, Falstaff, being, and the playwright himself in the culminating...
Televised studio production of play originally written for the stage by British playwright and novelist Winifred Ashton whose nom de plume was Clemence Dane (1888-1965). The plot links Shakespeare and the...
Radio drama. Clemence Dane’s stage play adapted and abridged for radio by Andrew Allan. The plot links Shakespeare and the ‘Dark Lady’ of the sonnets with the mysterious death of Shakespeare’s fellow...
Literary critic Harold Bloom talks to Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins about his new book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. Bloom explains his view that Shakespeare, through his writing, created the...
Radio programme. Julian Evans talks to American scholar and writer Harold Bloom about the character of Falstaff, a subject Bloom discussed in his book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human.
A film of the final scene in Hamlet with Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet. The film depicts Hamlet’s body being caught by Horatio. The film also included a soundtrack (primarily of sound effects) synchronised...
Fiction short. A depiction of the seven ages of Man in eight tableaux. The titles are: Infancy, Playmates, Schoolmates, Lovers, The Soldier, The Judge, Second Childhood and What Age? (showing an old woman...
A film version based on the design and concept of Adrian Noble’s 1994 Royal Shakespeare Company production. Noble’s main invention is a new character, the boy who dreams the play.
Feature film Western. The story of marshal Wyatt Earp’s fight against the Clanton gang at Tombstone, ending in the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Alan Mowbray plays an inebriate actor who is forced at gunpoint...
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