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Sound recording. Venus and Adonis read by Max Adrian and A Lover’s Complaint read by Claire Bloom.
Last of a four-part programme prepared by by Anthony Lewis showcasing the music of English Baroque composer John Blow. This episode focuses on Blow’s miniature opera that is based on the classical fable of...
Radio broadcast. Shakespeare’s poem is read by Judy Campbell, Michael Hordern, and David Spenser.
Podcast. Steven Sabel and Bryan Wildenthal, the Vice President of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, look at the basic questions around who wrote the Shakespeare plays and why such candidates as Marlowe,...
Video of the third lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate examines Shakespeare’s work as a poet, such as venus and Adonis,...
A 2-camera video recording of the production of the puppet Venus and Adonis inspired by Bunraku and performed at the Little Angel, Islington. Directed by Gregory Doran and narrated by Michael Pennington.
Radio broadcast. Stanzas from Shakespeare’s poem are chosen by Michael Moray and spoken by Marius Goring, Margaretta Scott and Valentine Dyall.
Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project Adam G. Hooks (University of Iowa) discusses the work that made Shakespeare famous and, in the context of the Covid-19 crisis, its references to the plague.
Shakespeare’s poem read in two parts by Robert Donat.
Programme of Shakespeare’s poetry and John Dowland’s music to celebrate Peggy Ashcroft’s 80th birthday. Includes extracts from Othello, Venus and Adonis, The Phoenix and Turtle and Shakespeare’s...
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