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Lincoln historian Harold Holzer discusses Abraham Lincoln’s interest in the writings of Shakespeare and his penchant for quoting the playwright and attending his plays. President Lincoln carried a volume...
Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...
Radio programme. Julian Evans talks to American scholar and writer Harold Bloom about the character of Falstaff, a subject Bloom discussed in his book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human.
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced and adapted for broadcasting by Rayner Heppenstall that uses Charles and Mary Lamb’s summary of the play from their Tales from Shakespeare as narrative...
Feature film. Eva is a pupil at a girl’s school. She is stage struck and with other female students puts on plays after hours, only to be caught and forbidden to act any more. She is later expelled for...
5 short videos, hosted on the National Theatre website, related to Marianne Elliott’s 2009 staging of the play. COLETH HILL ON PAROLES (2 mins) GEORGE RAINSFORD ON BERTRAM (2 mins) MICHELLE TERRY ON...
Reviewer’s reel for Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night in 1989. Directed by Harold Guskin with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Viola and Jeff Goldblum as Malvolio.
Television arts documentary series presented by Melvyn Bragg. The episode includes interviews with Harold Bloom on why Shakespeare invented human nature, Kenneth Branagh on romantic love and his new film...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted for broadcasting by Barbara Burnham and produced by Peter Creswell. The cast includes Franklyn Bellamy as Caesar, Dennis Arundell as Brutus and S. J. Warmington...
US sitcom about a group of seven castaways. Famous Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba, (Silvers, the guest star) arrives on the island. To impress him the castaways mount a musical version of Hamlet. The play...
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