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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...
Charity appeal for Red Nose day. In this sketch David Tennant plays Mr Logan, a new English teacher. Teenage pupil Lauren (Tate) challenges his ability to teach English when he is Scottish. He tries to...
Set in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, 1563, and narrated from Shylock’s perspective, this rewriting of Shakespeare’s play by British playwright Arnold Wesker retains the core plot of Shakespeare’s play...
In an alternative present, England is ruled by a military dictator, King Lear (Anthony Hopkins). In deciding upon his successor, Lear makes the mistake of being swayed by the flattery of his perspective...
Television documentary. The first episode in a six-part series in which director Richard Eyre gives his personal view on the history of the theatre in the twentieth century. Eyre considers the enduring...
Opera. A production by Robert Lepage conducted by Thomas Adès of his version of the Shakespeare play to a libretto by Meredith Oakes, taped live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. With Simon...
Radio play about an imaginary adventure between William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth. It was originally written in 1910 by George Bernard Shaw in aid of the scheme for a National Theatre. In the play the...
Sitcom centred on the wheeling and dealing of the Trotter brothers who run an ‘import export’ business from their South Peckham flat. In this episode Del’s wife Raquel, dreaming of a career on stage,...
Television production of the play with Nicol Williamson and Jane Lapotaire as the Macbeths.
Radio version of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 produced by Charles Lefeaux starring Harry Andrews in the title role and Robert Hardy as Hal.
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