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Radio documentary. John Barton talks to Hallam Tennyson about Geoffrey Bullough’s book Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare.
Radio programme. A 5-part series in which actors read from some of the works which were the literary sources for Shakespeare’s plays. Introduced by Dr Carol Rutter and abridged by Gordon House. In the...
Radio documentary. Historian Fiona Watson and literary expert Molly Rourke examine the life and reputation of Macbeth and ask how much is Shakespeare responsible for his evil reputation. They claim that the...
Subtitled ‘An enquiry into the sources of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest’, the radio play by J.I. M. Stewart (who also wrote under the pseudonym Michael Innes) focuses on a dispute between Peterkin,...
Radio programme investigating the legends and beliefs that might have informed Ophelia’s enigmatic remark in Act IV ("They say the owl was a baker’s daughter"). Presented by Terence Tiller, the...
Three-part radio series presented by Jonathan Bate. In the first episode Bate shows how Elizabethans under Queen Elizabeth presided over a flowering of literature and maps and ‘discovered England’. Bate...