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A five-part radio series in which Professor Emma Smith, University of Oxford, talks to major public figures about the role that Shakespeare might play in dealing with contemporary issues. With contributions...
Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of The Old Globe, discusses the theatre’s film series featuring the work of four filmmakers: Julie Taymor, Peter Brook, Al Pacino and Baz Luhrmann.
This six-episode podcast miniseries looks at the political currents that influenced Shakespeare and how they apply to the world today. Hosted by Isaac Butler. If a nation can be thought of as a family,...
Following the loss of England’s French territories, Henry VI is plagued by power struggles, insubordination and threats to his monarchy. Part of a trilogy of plays, Emma Smiths asks whether it’s still...
King Cymberline goes to war in protest over Roman demands for England to pay a tribute. Having won the war and captured his enemies, Cymberliine decides to pay the tribute despite his victory. In this...
This six-episode podcast miniseries looks at the political currents that influenced Shakespeare and how they apply to the world today. Hosted by Isaac Butler. Richard II is God’s anointed representative...
Podcast. Professor Jeffrey Knapp discusses how understanding the world and its reasons is linked to subjective sovereignty but also how the sovereign is dependent on their subjects or being subject to...
Podcast. Howard Caygill’s explores the impact of popular sovereignty in Hamlet as it seems a necessary component to Shakespeare’s play. Claudius’ sovereignty is ambiguous not only because of Hamlet...
Podcast with Graham Holderness, Alison Findlay and Michael Hattaway. Graham Holderness begins with discussing how Shakespeare’s first tetralogy becomes the trilogy of the Wars of the Roses and how this...
In this contemporary drama "vaguely inspired by Hamlet", the old tragedy gets the comic treatment. A young Hamlet heads home to the Prince of Denmark pub after leaving University. His father, the owner has...
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