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Leading actors perform some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches in a video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from The Merchant of...
Short video series in which Shakespeare academics and students talk to camera about an aspect of Shakespeare’s work. The aim is to persuade foreign students to study Shakespeare in Britain. Laura Hopwood...
STAR CROSS’D is poet, writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet. The film is set on a windswept English beach, where ‘two houses, both alike in common crime’ wage...
Television drama. In the small town of Arcata in America, a rich and successful actor (Gunge) made a promise to a young, attractive and vulnerable girl (Laura) that he would always love her and never hurt...
Radio broadcast. Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright hear Shakespeare as he himself would have spoken: the original, unvarnished version from linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal.
Audio recording. Conference held at the British Library Conference Centre for teachers exploring practical ways of exploring Shakespeare’s works in the classroom and how they have been reinterpreted by...
Featuring the music of Laura Mvula and speeches heard from Iqbal Khan’s 2017 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Antony and Cleopatra. This release also includes 6 minutes of Antony Hopkins’s music...
Feature film. Ben (Grint), the 17 year-old son of a vicar (Farrell), feels stifled by his devoutly religious mother (Linney). His meeting with Evie (Walters), a retired, unsuccessful actress given to...
Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Laura Wayth confesses that she’s never read any of Shakespeare’s plays but she has listened to the plays performed over and over, and it’s a keen ear that...
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