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Much Ado About Something (2001)

Subject

Drama

Documentary discussing Shakespearean authorship. Michael Rubbo argues that Christopher Marlowe wrote the plays. Shakespearean scholars, including Stanley Wells and Jonathan Bate, provide an alternative view.

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Good Life in Shakespeare, The (2010 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture

Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Jonathan Bate. Bate speaks on "The Good Life in Shakespeare" and about the Epicurean tradition,...

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Jonathan Bate (2016 Radio)

Series

Private Passions

Producer

Jane Greenwood (2)

BBC Radio 3 series in which guests talk to Michael Berkeley about music which has influenced their lives. In this edition biographer and critic Jonathan Bate talks of his favourite Shakespeare-inspired music...

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All the World His Stage (2000 Radio)

Series

Sunday Feature

Producer

Abigail Appleton

Radio broadcast. Jonathan Bate examines Shakespeare’s international impact with speakers from Moscow, Barbados, Berlin and New York. He explores how Shakespeare’s plays have been interpreted across...

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Rough Magic and Sweet Lullaby (2000 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Lectures

Producer

Zahid Warley

BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 5 writer and cultural historian Marina Warner considers Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural and...

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Sonnet, The (2001 Multimedia, Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Charlie Taylor

Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, Professor/poet Phillis Levin, and Professor Jonathan Bate discuss the Sonnet and its poetic relevance. What is it about the Sonnet...

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Editing the Complete Works and the New Macbeth by Greg Wyatt (2007 Audio)

Professor Jonathan Bate speaks about his work editing a new edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare, and a report from the unveiling of a new statue of Macbeth by the artist Greg Wyatt in...

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Ann Hathaway Revisited (2007 Audio)

Series

Royal Society of Literature

Author and academic Germaine Greer discusses Anne Hathaway and the commonly held beliefs about her and her marriage to William Shakespeare. Chaired by biographer Jonathan Bate and introduced by Maggie...

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Discovery of England’s Past, The (2003 Radio)

Series

Discovery of England, The

Producer

Matthew Dodd

Three-part radio series presented by Jonathan Bate. In the first episode Bate shows how Elizabethans under Queen Elizabeth presided over a flowering of literature and maps and ‘discovered England’. Bate...

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Montaigne (2011 Radio)

Series

Essay, The

Radio series exploring the work of Renaissance nobleman and writer Michel de Montaigne. In this episode Jonathan Bate considers the relationship between Montaigne and Shakespeare. Excerpts from the essays...

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