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Independent comedy short. "Vignette 1: "Hamlet, Interrupted" -As Dr. Hawkins, on the phone, talks Sylvia Plath down off the proverbial cliff, Hamlet and Ophelia enter with a host of premarital issues to work...
Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...
Instagram series hosted by Ben Lauer, the Folger Shakespeare Library’s web producer, in which guests are asked 30 rapid-fire questions about Shakespeare. In this edition, the actor Shirine Babb discusses...
Television documentary. An impressive line-up of actors and actresses relate the history of the Old Vic theatre company including Tyrone Guthrie, Tommy Steele, Ninette de Valois and John Neville. There is...
Two friends from a theatre company cope with a recent tragedy in their lives by discussing and acting out scenes from Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Cut-out animation by Dagmar Doubkova. An animated lecture for women and girls to advise them how to handle dominant men. No further details known. (12/2008).
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Laura Wayth confesses that she’s never read any of Shakespeare’s plays but she has listened to the plays performed over and over, and it’s a keen ear that...
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical exploits of Comedy of Errors, drawing out the play’s serious concerns with identity and selfhood.
A panel discussion, moderated by Bill Buford, on Shakespeare’s tragedies and their continuing relevance. Director Matthew Warchus discusses his modern-dress production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare...
In As You Like It, Shakespeare created one of his greatest and most complicated female roles. At a time when women were not allowed to act on stage, the role would have been taken by a young boy. But who?...
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