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Slide set. A history from primitive mime and dance through to Victorian developments. Includes a section on Shakespeare and the Globe.
A film reporting on behind-the-scenes activities at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London including educational work, preparations for a performance of Romeo and Juliet, and a history of the building.
Slide set. Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the...
Television documentary. Jonathan Miller reports on the history of the Roundhouse theatre. Includes a discussion between Kenneth Tynan and Trevor Nunn on the development of Shakespeare stage productions.
Radio documentary on the history of the Derby Shakespeare Company, an amateur theatre company founded in 1908. Presenter Andy Potter traces the company’s links to Cornwall, explores the Alan Bates legacy,...
Recording of a lecture by Dr. Elliot Engel that looks at how plays were staged in Elizabethan times and what audience expectations might have been.
Radio series. Lenny Henry looks at the stage history of Othello.
A history of performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, commissioned to celebrate the RSC’s 25th anniversary. Features reminiscences by famous actors who have played there: James Dale, who...
Documentary series on archaeology. This episode looks at the east of Britain. Finds include the theatre where Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet and Henry V, complete with sound effect props and evidence...
Radio documentary. Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, examines Shakespeare’s indoor playhouse, the immensely influential but now little-known Blackfriars Theatre. He...