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Film chronicling in comic sketches the history of eroticism and attempts made over the centuries to disguise the human body. Includes an episode about men acting female roles on the Elizabethan stage with a...
Comedy sketch show on distinctive characters drawn from British society. The episode includes a sketch in which theatrical agent Jeremy Rent offers tiny Dennis Waterman a part in stage production of Macbeth....
Eighth in a series of 30-minute broadcasts showcasing scenes from Shakespeare’s plays performed by leading actors of the time. This episode focuses on Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado...
Podcast of a Thursday lecture held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Professor Alison Shell talks about the deployment of palinodes (recantations) and the idea of reversal and repentance...
Video recording of Aaron Posner’s 2011 staging of The Comedy of Errors. Videotaped for WAPAVA by George Karseboom.
Romantic comedy drama starring Tamsin Greig as Alice Chenery, a woman trying to find her true love. In this episode, ‘Fat Hamlet’ is the idea of Gil Raymond (Michael Landes) - inspired by an all-female...
Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...
Feature film comedy and a parody of CLEOPATRA (1963). The film spoofs history in general and British attitudes in particular. Noted for it’s gloriously bad puns as in ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got...
Film adaptation of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Jane Smiley, which is loosely based on King Lear but with a feminist slant. Larry (Robards) decides to give his daughters joint ownership of his...
Television sitcom about night security staff. A reprise of an idea taken from an earlier programme in the series TAKEAWAY, which alluded to Richard II, but here with many references to King Lear. Carter and...
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