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Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge) discusses his research into Shakespeare in East Africa.
Animation. A meditation on A Midsummer Night’s Dream blending pastels, pencil, water colour, and cels to evoke the clown’s bewildering experiences. Set to the Scherzo from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer...
Television news and current affairs series hosted by Jeremy Paxman. The episode includes a 3-minute item on attitudes to Shakespeare. Carol Vordeman had failed to answer a question on Shakespeare on the quiz...
Radio drama. An imaginative response by Naomi Alderman to The Merchant of Venice asking what happened to Jessica.
British television comedy series. The episodes features a sketch which presents the first underwater production of Measure For Measure. Dubbed over an expanse of sea is muffled Shakespearean blank verse. The...
Video podcast. This podcast by Steven Gunn talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare’s day. Coroners’ inquest reports into accidental deaths tell us about the hazards...
Television western series starring Clint Walker as Cheynne Bodie. Marshal Bodie is hired to investigate the death of the local Sheriff. He finds Mojave City lacking in civic-minded citizens. When a...
Biopic. In one scene Queen Victoria is listening to a reading from Richard II. The scene is Act 3, sc. ii `Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king; The breath of...
Feature film. Rich Longfellow (Shank) is a young aspiring actor who dreams of playing Hamlet. He moves from a small town in Ohio to Los Angeles, certain that he will star in major motion pictures before...
Comedy drama series created by Simon Wheeler and starring Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk-based solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the locals who come to him for legal assistance....
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