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First in a three-part docuseries on the life and work of William Shakespeare, combining interviews with drama vignettes. 1. 1587. William Shakespeare leaves the small rural town of Stratford to pursue his...
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...
Talk/interview/public affairs series hosted by William F. Buckley Jr. Charlton Ogburn’s book The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality (published 1984) expounds the theory that the Earl...
An interactive DVD documenting the research of Martin White, Professor of Theatre at the University of Bristol, into original practices in the Jacobean Indoor Playhouse focusing particularly on the use of...
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Matthew Sweet presents a special edition examining the relationship between Shakespeare and Americans. Discusses the Californian goldrush and Alexis De Toqueville’s claim that...
Radio programme presented by Jenni Murray. In this edition Professor Tony Howard and Kathryn Hunter talk to Jenni Murray about women who have played the role of Hamlet. Tony Howard talks about HAMLET and...
Feature film version of Measure for Measure. Lavish sets, lush costumes and hundreds of extras fail to redeem the film. Variety, reviewing the US release, notes bad lighting, poor sound and unhelpful English...
Professor Mack of Yale University lectures on the play. Part 1 discusses the social structures, customs and audiences of Elizabethan England. Part 2 looks at the play’s three stories: the ghost story, the...
Teaching Shakespeare is discussed by three delegates at the World Shakespeare Congress. Rev. W. Moelwyn Merchant tells interviewer Phyllis Webb that academics tend to verbalise even about performances. He...
Television programme. Third in a series of lectures drawn from Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s famous undergraduate course on the philosophy of justice. In this episode Sandel introduces the British...
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