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Slide set. A history from primitive mime and dance through to Victorian developments. Includes a section on Shakespeare and the Globe.
Radio documentary on the history of the Derby Shakespeare Company, an amateur theatre company founded in 1908. Presenter Andy Potter traces the company’s links to Cornwall, explores the Alan Bates legacy,...
A tape-slide presentation that introduces English theatre and traces the development of theatre design and acting styles. Comments on the influential playwrights and actors within each period.
An introduction to Shakespeare and his times, focusing on the audience and actors in Shakespearean theatre and illustrating the historical context of the plays. Looks at what it was like to be in the...
Tyrone Guthrie talks about the way in which Shakespeare’s plays are being staged in the theatre in the 1930s and the problems to be faced presenting them to a ‘modern’ audience.
Drama critic Harold Child continues the radio talks series, focusing on how Shakespeare was staged in the eighteenth century.
In the opening talk of the series, Shakespeare scholar G.B. Harrison dicusses the different ways in which Shakespeare’s plays were put on stage throughout the centuries.
Radio programme presented by Farquharson Small on the history of the Old Vic Theatre, its two female managers, Emma Cons (acting manager 1898-1912) and Lilian Baylis (manager 1912-37), and producer-director...
Shows Stratford and the surrounding courntryside which form the background to Shakespeare’s early life and work. Elizabethan London is related to London scenes of the 1950s. Shows a full-scale model of an...
13-part American radio series, hosted by Sharon Swenson, in which Shakespeare scholars discuss aspects of Shakespeare’s work. In this episode Chris Clark, Utah Valley State College, Department of Theatre,...
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