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Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Charles LaPorte about his new book, The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century.
Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. In the opening programme Sophie Duncan reveals how Shakespeare’s heroines helped transform Victorian schoolgirls into Edwardian activists. The 19th...
Video recording of an undergraduate lecture by Professor John Holmes in the University of Birmingham’s Discovering Shakespeare module.
Slide set. A history from primitive mime and dance through to Victorian developments. Includes a section on Shakespeare and the Globe.
A sound recording of Michael Benthall’s 1954 Old Vic production with Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Moira Shearer as Titania. Mendelssohn’s incidental music is played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra...
Video recording of JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Cymbeline for the 1989 New York Shakespeare Festival. George Bartenieff is Cymbeline and Joan Cusack is Imogen. Original music by Philip Glass.
Experimental film. A comparison of text from The Oxford Companion to English Literature, with a full blown rendering of the ‘Tomorrow’ speech. A Brechtian romp, an art school exercise.' [Description as...
Biographical compilation for radio about Fanny Kemble (Estelle Kohler), leading Victorian actress of her generation, who specialised in playing Shakespeare’s heroines. Bill Homewood narrates.
Writer and critic John Elsom talks to administrators, directors and politicians about how financial and bureaucratic organisation affects what appears on the stage. He looks at changes in organisation since...
A videotape recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2003 production of As You Like It. Directed by Gregory Thompson with Nina Sosanya as Rosalind.
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