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Is It Shakespeare, Or is It Hip-Hop? (2017 Audio)

aka: The Poet’s Pen Turns Them to Shapes

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Is is Shakespeare, or is it Hip Hop? This is the question posed to his audiences by the actor, poet, rapper and educator Kingslee James Daley after he recites a passage of Shakespeare to them. As the...

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Hip Hop Vs. Shakespeare (2022 Video)

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Sotheby’s Talks

Recording of a debate on cultural expression between author Howard Jacobson and spoken word performer George the Poet, moderated by Shahidha Bari (University of the Arts, London). They explore how relevant...

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Hamlet: The Sonnet Man (2014 Film)

Producer

Arje Shaw

Independent short. Brooklyn hip-hop artist Devon Glover raps Hamlet’s "To Be Or Not To Be" soliloquy, first in Shakespeare’s language then he translates it into contemporary English. The Sonnet Man...

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"Something then in Rhyme" (2017 Audio)

aka: Q Brothers - Othello: The Remix

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Since 2002, Gregory and Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum, better known as GQ and JAQ - the Q Brothers - have been using hip-hop to adapt and update the plays of Shakespeare....

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Re: Shakespeare (2015 Multimedia)

An app from the Royal Shakespeare Company and Samsung created to help 11-18 year olds experience Shakespeare, Focusing specifically on Much Ado About Nothing, RE:Shakespeare has three interactive sections -...

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Who is Shakespeare for? (2019 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. This editiontackles some of the issues that can make Shakespeare’s work seem too remote, difficult, inaccessible or even elitist to...

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Twelfth Night (2016 Video)

Series

Shakespeare Lives 2016

Director

Kane Chattey

Producer

Joy Campbell

In the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the British recording artists Maverick Sabre, Mic Righteous and Eyez perform lyrics inspired by Shakespeare’s romantic comedy. The video is part of a series of...

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"World in Empire", The (2017 Audio)

aka: How King Lear Inspired ‘Empire’

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. How the Fox TV television series ‘Empire’ was influenced by King Lear in the story of an ageing ruler - in this case the head of a hip-hop music dynasty - who...

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Hop-A-Long Hamlet (1957 Radio)

Series

Assignment

Radio current affairs programme. This episode includes a four minute item in which Pat Marini interviews Christopher Plummer. Plummer was appearing in repertory at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare...

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Max & Beth (2008 Film)

aka: Max and Beth

Trailer for Max & Beth, a young people’s theatre YPT Urban Arts company production written by UK rap artist Lowkey which is inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth and written entirely in rhyme. "Kidulthood...

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