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Radio documentary. John Barton talks to Hallam Tennyson about Geoffrey Bullough’s book Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare.
Third of nine talks introducing various fields of research within Shakespearean studies. J. Isaacs comments on the ways in which recent research has extended our knowledge of the sources Shakespeare drew on...
Radio programme. A 5-part series in which actors read from some of the works which were the literary sources for Shakespeare’s plays. Introduced by Dr Carol Rutter and abridged by Gordon House. In the...
Images of manuscripts and printed documents from the 16th and early 17th centuries among which are books and plays used as background material by Shakespeare. Includes sources of Shakespeare’s plays,...
Radio broadcast. Tinch Minter researches source material from which Shakespeare wrote his play. His main resources seem to have been the English chronicles of Edward Hall (1548) and Raphael Holinshed...
Radio documentary. Historian Fiona Watson and literary expert Molly Rourke examine the life and reputation of Macbeth and ask how much is Shakespeare responsible for his evil reputation. They claim that the...