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Video recording of a lecture by actor and director Janine Watson on Shakespeare’s female characters and her practice in directing and playing them. The full title of the lecture is: Be Not Afraid of...
Jonathan Freedland and Professor Emma Smith discuss the closure of theatres in Shakespeare’s time during an outbreak of the plague in 1603.
Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....
Feature propaganda film and a wartime sequel to The SCARLET PIMPERNEL (d. Harold Young, 1934) also starring Leslie Howard. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, an English archaeologist...
Feature film. On the eve of World War II in Athens, a group of young people have established a theatrical group, planning to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The outbreak of war, however, changes...
Ian Atkins televised adaptation of Robert Atkins’ ‘Bankside Players’ production who made up the cast for this studio performance of the play.
Seventeenth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean...