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An updated urban version of Cymbeline by Matthew Dunster. "London. 2016. A strange and unsettled time - where men and the violence of gangs rules the streets. In a dangerous world we hear a new voice -...
Cult CBC radio comedy sci-fi adventure serial. Johnny and Dante time travel to Elizabethan England to try and find out who wrote Shakespeare’s plays. They find themselves involved in an assassination...
Twelve-part children’s cartoon television series about time-travel. Coggs and Sprinx blast down into Elizabethan London and find themselves at a theatre awards ceremony. The main award turns out to be a...
In As You Like It, Shakespeare created one of his greatest and most complicated female roles. At a time when women were not allowed to act on stage, the role would have been taken by a young boy. But who?...
Ian Small discusses the play. The recording is designed to stimulate both group discussion and individual research, to suggest ways of organising material, and to encourage personal response to the text.
Julian Lovelock discusses the play. The recording is designed to stimulate both group discussion and individual research, to suggest ways of organising material, and to encourage personal response to the text.
Open University programme supporting A201 Renaissance and Reformation. Brian Stone sets out to help students with the satirical poetry written in England between Hall and Jonson. An understanding of it is...
Radio play by Jonathan Holloway. Shakespeare died 400 years ago on the same day as the Spanish writer Cervantes - except they didn’t. The calendars of the two countries were ten days apart. Cervantes plots...
American comedy short. Hoping to attract customers to Spanky McFarland’s barnyard production of Romeo and Juliet, star performer Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer proposes a ‘pay as you exit’ policy: If the...
Radio broadcast. In this episode of the programme on the history of ideas, host Melvyn Bragg discusses Shakespeare’s King Lear with guests Jonathan Bate, Catherine Belsey and Katherine Duncan-Jones. Issues...
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