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Lecture by Michael Bogdanov, Artistic Director of the English Shakespeare Company. The session is chaired by P.D. James, Baroness James of Holland Park.
Radio broadcast. Soprano Elizabeth Benson Guy, accompanied by pianist John Newmark, sings four songs by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Songs of Ophelia, Op. 67 by Richard Strauss and three songs by Robert Quilter.
Neil Aldrich recites Shakespeare’s sonnets, and other works, speculating about the recitative convention employed in the 17th century. The delivery is rap-like, very different from the performance norm....
29 of Shakespeare’s sonnets delivered by four young people (collectively and individually) in pastoral settingsas well as at the breakfast table, over the telephone, and as a stand-up comedy routine....
A made-for-television film. A version of Macbeth. The film is comprised of two uninterrupted shots, the first a 5-minute segment preceding the credits and the remainder a 67-minute segment shot largely in...
In 1990, the Mabou Mines theatre group worked to perform an abridged version of King Lear directed by Lee Breuer featuring gender-reversed roles and set in 1950s America. The film follows the director Lee...
Polish television adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Zygmunt Hubner with Tadeusz Lomnicki as Petruchio and Magdelena Zawadzka as Katherine.
Ronald Draper, Emeritus Professor of the University of Durham, discusses a selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Some attention is given to the place in the story of the golden young man, the dark lady, and...
This live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Fiona Talkington, brings together two key themes: Shakespeare and Sibelius. The concert programme starts with Sibelius’s complete incidental music...
A video recording of a performance of theatre designer Robert Wilson’s performance-piece HAMLET: A MONOLOGUE. Wilson, working with Wolfgang Wiens’ text, performs Hamlet as a monologue in 15 scenes. He...
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