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Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. This edition looks at the impact Shakespeare has had, and continues to have, on US Presidents.
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...
Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. This edition talks at teenagers who love Shakespeare and even younger autistic children for whom Shakespeare has become a...
Series, in three parts, showing how the meaning of the play can change in the hands of a director. Director Douglas Campbell has firm convictions about Macbeth (including his belief that parts of the play...
Recording of a lecture by Professor James Shapiro (Columbia University) entitled ‘Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and Macbeth.' in which he samines the importance of Shakespeare in the life...
Video recording of an interview by David McCandless (Southern Oregon University) with Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater in New York. The discussion is followed by a Q&A session.
Kate McDuffie looks at SHE’S THE MAN (2006), a contemporary update of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night - and doesn’t like what she finds. She focuses on deviations from the play, the removal of a Malvolio...
Political advertisement. One in a series of commercials in the ‘Stevenson for President’ campaign that featured actual and fictional people voting for Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 American Presidential...
Satirical feature film setting the Romeo and Juliet story into Cold War politics. Igor Romanoff, the son of a Russian ambassador from an obscure Eastern European country, Concordia, falls in love with Juliet...
Video podcast. Host Mitch Jeserich talks to Farah Karim-Cooper (King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe) about her book, The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race.
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