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Examines the nature of tyranny, power and politics as reflected in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. The Julius Caesar section includes an interview between Trevor Macdonald, of Channel...
US moral and religious talk series presented by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. One of his regular themes was the evils of communism. In this episode Archbishop Sheen intones the burial scene from Julius Caesar....
Local radio show covering topical issues and seeking public opinion with’phone-ins, text messages etc. In this edition Vanessa asked the three main candidates for London Mayor’if you were a Shakespearean...
A programme for the Open University Culture and Belief in Europe 1450-1600 course. Actors Jeremy Irons and Michael Pennington and director David Giles show how, through rehearsals, the complex role of...
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Matthew Sweet presents a special edition examining the relationship between Shakespeare and Americans. Discusses the Californian goldrush and Alexis De Toqueville’s claim that...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. When the British came to colonise the African continent in the middle of the 1800s, they brought Shakespeare with them. But after the British left power, it was...
Experimental film realised by Alexander Kluge.`Chamberlain, Mussolini and their aides attend a 1938 performance of [Verdi’s] Macbeth in Rome. This audience is itself made into the raw material of opera....
Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Includes a 7-minute report on a strange gap in the BBC Television Shakespeare series: the 1978 production of Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Donald...
Television series, in six episodes, on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Writer John Mortimer based each episode around events in Shakespeare’s life to suggest how they influenced his writing. In...
A syndicated radio series. Shakespeare scholar and author Dr. Bernard Beckerman was the host for the entire series. The episodes were: (29/03/64) Passages associated with Cleopatra with Pamela Brown and...
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