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Dame Helen Mirren looks back on one of her earliest television roles, playing Rosalind in the BBC’s 1978 production of the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It. She shares her thoughts on the potential that...
Educational radio series in which husband and wife Greg James and Bella Mackie meet inspiring teachers. In this edition GCSE English teacher Mrs Steele gives them a lesson about just how gross life was in...
Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...
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...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The actress Charlotte Cushman was a theatrical icon in 19th century America, known to the press by her first name. Her fame was not, however, for conventionally...
Director, Phyllida Lloyd sheds light on the conception and creation of Shakespeare’s Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest; starring an all-female cast. The plays were staged at the Donmar Warehouse in London...
Feature film. An adaptation of As You like It set in Ximending, a small district of contemporary Taipei in Taiwan that has no WiFi. The film features an almost exclusively female cast, with only supporting...
Live recording of Gregory Doran’s 2019 production set at the turn of the 20th century in Vienna.
This adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" for video game platforms is an adventure/role playing game in which Ophelia is placed centre stage. Having experienced a vision in which everyone dear to her meets...
A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.