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The second of four stories in the newsfilm. "WAR ENTERTAINMENTS: A large number of wounded soldiers were entertained by a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Hanover Lodge, Regent’s Park".
Feature film. On the eve of World War II in Athens, a group of young people have established a theatrical group, planning to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The outbreak of war, however, changes...
Feature film adapted from Michael Gilbett’s 1952 novel ‘Death in Captivity’, based on his experiences as a POW in Italy during the Second World War. In the book the play being produced is Rudolf...
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Nashville he watched Henry V set during the Civil War.Composer Stephen Sondheim and actor Alec Baldwin contribute....
Newsreel item. Nurses and wounded soldiers at Bournbrook Military Hospital in Birmingham watch an open-air production of Twelfth Night.
Television serial, in seven parts, based on the Balkan and Levant trilogies, Olivia Manning’s autobiographical accounts of her travels with her husband Reggie Smith between 1939 and 1943. Together for the...
This six-episode podcast miniseries looks at the political currents that influenced Shakespeare and how they apply to the world today. Hosted by Isaac Butler. In ancient Rome, the people rise up to demand...
Documentary. Jennings’ deeply felt vision of life in Britain during the final year of World War II as lived by four representative characters - an engine driver, a farmer, a miner and an injured fighter...
Play based on The Merchant of Venice. Set among the black and Jewish populations in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., where passions simmer and societies realign, District Merchants is a tale of money,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A comment occuring late in this podcast : "Without Bacon and Shakespeare, we might not have won the war in the Pacific," states Bill Sherman, head of research at...
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