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Lecture. Fredson Bowers lectures on the passage in which Hamlet, after the stabbing of Polonius, seems to express his understanding of the mistake he has made in murdering an innocent man.
Radio version of a theatre production devised by Jonathan Cullen and Richard Hahlo, based on an original idea by Pippa Smith. Actors from the theatre company Hydrocracker, masquerading as waiters in a pizza...
Musical feature. When the voice of tenor Forcellini breaks down and his co-star Maria refuses to work with him, opera maestro Marcello Bonetti turns to Antonio Belizza, a fisherman, to replace him in his new...
A daily interview radio programme about social change and day-to-day life presented by Richard Aedy. This edition, in the second of four stories, reports on prisoners at Queensland’s Borallon Correctional...
A one-act take on Hamlet in the stand-up comedy genre, The boy/man, accompanied by dog Horatio and his air guitar, turns up in a dream/nightmare world. The original text becomes an amalgam of The Simpsons,...
Chat show hosted by Michael Parkinson. Jonathan Miller is the first guest and talks for c17 minutes. He states that he prefers directing plays and operas to performing. He directed A Midsummer Night’s...
Fourth of a five-part series of radio essays exploring Shakespeare’s portrayal of love and how his work affects perceptions of love. In this episode, Professor Helen Hackett reflects on the enduring power...
American adult animated science-fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly...
US late-night talk/variety show. In this episode (3 minute sketch) Carson, dressed in Renaissance garb, imagines Shakespeare as written for television and plays Hamlet, reciting, "To be or not to be" and...
Fiction film version of The Taming of the Shrew directed by D.W. Griffith with Florence Lawrence as Kate and Arthur Johnson as Petruchio. The film omits the Christopher Sly framing and much reduces the...
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