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Community-sourced performance video inspired by the themes in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, set in the marketplaces of West Oakland, Hong Kong, Managua, downtown Los Angeles and Venice. Written and...
Drama by Paula and Edward Fitzgerald. Anti-Stratfordian play set in the Globe during a rehearsal for Hamlet and in Francis Bacon’s study. Details for this entry are taken from World Shakespeare...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library, What do we know about Shakespeare’s life? This episode considers not only that question, but two others: During the past four centuries, when and how did...
Television drama. Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival stage production directed for television by Bruce Minnix. George C. Scott is Shylock.
Documentary. The first part of the film tells the orthodox story of William Shakespeare of Stratford and the longstanding views held by academia. Professors Stanley Wells and Jonathan Bate defend the...
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Brian Cummings. Cummings argues that the biography of Shakespeare is a paradox. Is he our...
Educational series. One in a twelve-part series of films made by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (now TV Ontario). The aim was to relate ‘Shakespeare’s timeless ideas and understanding...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare and his plays are woven deeply into the culture of the Caribbean, both white and black. Even after centuries of British colonial rule came to an end,...
The Merchant of Venice set in contemporary California and focusing on the relationship between Bassanio and Antonio. The film is a modern re-telling of the play - a Jewish woman is raped in broad daylight...
Television drama created by Jim Leonard. Romeo and Juliet set in the adult film industry in Los Angeles. The daughter of a porn industry mogul falls in love with a district attorney, a stauch anti-porn...
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