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Explores Measure for Measure and the questions it raises around morality and virginity against its setting of corruption, and in particular the moral dilemma facing the heroine. Follows Fiona Shaw as she...
Gareth Lloyd Evans, Univesity of Birmingham, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. If this is a ‘problem play’, how do we define the ‘problem’? The speakers lay...
W Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s Univesity College Wales discuss Hamlet. They relate it to its time and review external evidence that can help in understanding the...
Documentary. An anthology of theatrical scenes that correlate English and Spanish theatre traditions showing how religious drama from medieval Europe survives in hispanic communities in New Mexico and...
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...
Interest film, in five parts, based on the Glastonbury pageant of 1922. Episode one shows the arrival of Joseph of Arimathea to preach Christianity to British peoples; episode 2 shows King Alfred’s...
Feature film. Mr Hundert (Kline) is a classics teacher in an all-boys prep school. Each year he moderates the ‘Mr Julius Caesar’ contest, a competition which pits the top three students of his class...
The relentlessly cold and unemotional interpretation was heavily influenced by the essay, ‘King Lear or Endgame’, in which the Polish poet/critic/academic Jan Kott argued that Lear should be interpreted...
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