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A site which employs PieSpy, software designed to allow users to infer and visualise social networks on Internet Relay Chat (IRC). It works by feeding PieSpy with the full texts of all Shakespeare plays,...
Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2016 staging of Cymbeline directed by Melly Still with Gillian Bevan in the title role.
Shows how a full set of ‘Greenwich’ armour of the 1580’s, weighing 74 pounds and consisting of 222 individual plates, was put on. Uses the setting of Bodiam Castle in Sussex. Combined on one...
Stephen Sackur interviews Gregory Doran, emeritus artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Recorded at the RSC in Stratford, Doran discusses why Shakespeare still matters 400 years after his death.
A history of swordplay tracing the evolution of civilian swords and fighting techniques from the street fights of the 16th century to the swordplay of the 18th century fencing schools, drawing on texts and...
Gregory Doran, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, delivers the 2016 Richard Dimbleby Lecture. Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death. Doran reflects on the impact and resonance...
Sitcom centred around Timothy Lumsden, a depressed 41-year-old who still lives at home with, and is dominated by, his mother. In this episode Timothy is the prompter for the local dramatic society production...
Theatre designer Shelagh Keegan talks to Christie Carson. Keegan talks about her approach to design (starting with copious notes from the text), her work with David Thacker, the collaborative process,...
Sitcom centred around Timothy Lumsden, a depressed 41-year-old who still lives at home with, and is dominated by, his mother. In this episode Timothy is promoted from prompter to Bottom in the the local...
Instructional film which considers how Shakespeare’s work is relevant to contemporary audiences quoting from several plays to indicate the phrases and expressions still used today. Includes footage of...
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