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Geoff Hemstedt, lecturer at the University of Sussex, discusses with two English teachers the difficulties of teaching Hamlet to ‘A’ level students. The discussion centres on the length, the language,...
Video recording of a speech delivered by Kenneth Adelman at the Meridian International Centre, Washington, D.C., February 9, 2000. Centres on Augustine Norman and Adelman’s book Shakespeare in Charge: The...
Independent short. The film film centres around the relationship between Richard III and his wife, Lady Anne. No further details known (4/2013).
Opening address of the Associate Council of the Arts (ACA) Conference that took place 7 - 10 January 1976 in Canada. Following a brief introduction, the address is delivered by Joseph Papp, theatrical...
Educational videotape. Uses extracts, supplemented by research materials, from Tara Arts’ production Heer and Romeo, which toured schools and art centres in the Summer and Autumn of 1992. The original...
Us sitcom. A spin-off series from THE COSBY SHOW. The series centres around the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically Black college in Virginia. In this episode Dwayne, who loves...
Radio drama with strong Hamlet parallels and many quotations from the play. The plot centres on Roy Rayburn who dominated the American stage for many years until he was committed to an asylum nine years...
A television adaptation of W.S. Gilbert’s 1891 burlesque. The script parodies the style of Shakespearean performance in the 1890s and centres on Claudius’ secret - that in his youth he was the author of...
Musical feature. When the voice of tenor Forcellini breaks down and his co-star Maria refuses to work with him, opera maestro Marcello Bonetti turns to Antonio Belizza, a fisherman, to replace him in his new...
One of Shakespeare’s earliest and shortest plays, "The Comedy of Errors" centres on a family catastrophe. A Merchant, Egeon has identical twin sons who are both names Antipholus. To him, it makes perfect...