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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.
Tape-slide. Shows the period of history which Shakespeare wrote about in his chronicle plays and his major source of material, what each play is about, and who the major characters are. Educational...
Radio arts programme. John Pickford explores the intellectual and scientific thought that shaped Shakespeare’s period.
By showing Londoners of various occupations visiting the Globe theatre during Elizabethan times, the film reveals the social life of the age, which is then related to the writings of Sir Thomas More, Richard...
Documentary film. Peter Brook created the International Centre of Theatre Research in Paris in 1970. In the autumn of 1973, the Centre conducted a five-week work period at the Brooklyn Academy of Music,...
One of a series of study tapes developed and produced in association with the Language Centre of the University of Exeter. Dr Corbin, Head of the School of English at the University of Exeter, discusses...
Radio programme. Actors William Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner perform excerpts from five Shakespeare’s plays, Catherine Paterson (mezzo-contralto) sings a number of Shakespearean songs, and the music of...
A series of interactive educational videos studying the works of Shakespeare. Made by actors, for actors, the series looks at the speeches and the meaning behind them. It is aimed at actors learning a new...
Fiction film. Ball (op cit) writes (p.168). ‘All the camera work was done out of doors, and the scenery is lovely and charmingly rustic. Remarkably for its period, the photography is technically advanced,...
Radio play written by St. John G. Ervine and adapted for broadcasting by Cyril Wood. Devised as a sequel to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, it takes place 10 years after the date of Antonio’s trial...
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