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Film which tells the story of a theatre group in a fictional country resembling Thailand that is staging a production of Macbeth. One of the film’s characters is a dictator named ‘Dear Leader’ who...
Six-part documentary series on the history of global finance written and presented by Professor Niall Ferguson. In this first episode Ferguson speaks (c 10 mins) about the history of usary, referring to...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare and his plays are woven deeply into the culture of the Caribbean, both white and black. Even after centuries of British colonial rule came to an end,...
Dominic Arkwright charts the rise and fall of Thomas Middleton. He wrote stories of murder, incest and sexual blackmail in the backstreets of London occasionally out-selling Shakespeare at the box office....
Rebecca Gatward, director of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 2007 production of The Merchant of Venice, talks to Heather Neill about her conception of the play and its staging. She speaks about how...
The Merchant of Venice set in contemporary California and focusing on the relationship between Bassanio and Antonio. The film is a modern re-telling of the play - a Jewish woman is raped in broad daylight...
The fourteenth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...
Television drama created by Jim Leonard. Romeo and Juliet set in the adult film industry in Los Angeles. The daughter of a porn industry mogul falls in love with a district attorney, a stauch anti-porn...
Feature film emerging from the Dogme 95 manifesto and the first to be filmed outside Scandinavia in the English language. 10 tourists, travelling by bus in the Namibian desert, are stranded when the bus runs...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of The Merchant of Venice. Directed by Bill Alexander with Antony Sher as Shylock.