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A video recording of the play produced by Falstaff Presents and directed by Beth Milles. Peter Jacobson is Arcite and Rainn Wilson, Palamon.
Dr Frank Baxter concludes his first series of lectures by summarising why he believes Shakespeare is a great author.
The third and final programme on Othello presented by Dr Frank C. Baxter. Baxter analyses the fourth and fifth acts of the play discussing humour, poetry and the use of song; he also considers the burden of...
The second of three programmes on Macbeth presented by Dr Frank C. Baxter. Baxter analyses the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth believing that Macbeth has a deep and vivid imagination that envisions...
Dr Frank C. Baxter presents a history of western drama from the classic Greek to the English morality play, seen as a forerunner to Elizabethan drama. Baxter argues that the public theatre developed out of a...
The second of three programmes on Romeo and Juliet presented by Dr Frank C. Baxter. Baxter analyses the second and third acts of the play. Baxter asks students to read these acts and note at what point bad...
A video recording of Jude Kelly’s 1997 production of Othello for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Patrick Stewart, playing Othello, is the only white actor in an otherwise all Afro-American cast.
Feature film. Alex (Grant), a London bank manager, feels nostalgic for the time when, as a university student, he staged a Shakespeare play in an idyllic English village. Deciding to repeat the experience...
Radio broadcast of Hamlet adapted, directed and starring John Gielgud.
A version of King Lear using the theatrical formalism of Beijing opera as a medium in which to read Shakespeare’s play. The director translates Lear into a three-act, one-actor piece of performance art,...
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