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Second of twelve programmes in which all Shakespeare sonnets are recited by various actors. The programme is introduced by Rayner Heppenstall. Robert Harris reads Sonnets 18 to 25.
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In the decades after Shakespeare’s death, his works fell out of favour. His renaissance is usually credited to actor-manager David Garrick, who staged a...
Abbreviated version of the play closely following the original with the exception of a new character, Penelope. It is she who quarrels with Titania and tells Puck to bewitch Titania.
Radio broadcast of the play directed and adapted by Brewster Morgan with Reginald Denny as Julius Caesar and Morris Ankrum as Mark Antony. Conway Tearle is narrator.
A one-off special comedy sketch television programme. The episode included a take on the final scene in Othello with Frankie Howerd and Cilla Black.
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York of Verdi’s Macbeth. Frederick Burchinal sings the title role. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Kazimierz Kord. Peter...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 production directed by Michael Boyd. Josette Simon and Nicholas Jones double the roles of Hippolyta/Titania and...
Live sound recording of Michael Rudman’s 1981 production of Measure for Measure for the National Thetare with Stefan Kalipha as the Duke.
Radio programme in which Winston Churchill’s nephew, Giles Romilly, talks about some of the impressions left by reading Shakespeare’s plays during his solitary confinement as a POW at Tittmoning castle,...
First broadcast of a religious service held by the Collegiate Church of Holy Trinity in connection with the annual Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon. The Shakespeare sermon, which...
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