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Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Dr. Ian Smith about his new book, Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race, which explores how Shakespeare explores race in his plays.
Fiction comedy short. Martin, in costume, prepares to rehearse the part of Hamlet. The servants are convinced he is mad and have him taken to the police station. Addressing them in Elizabethan language he...
Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition he talks to Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, Reno) about his work in locating and cataloguing full descriptions...
A musical grotesquerie based on the legend of King Lear. King Real lives in a nuclear submobile in which outrageous and horrific scenes of black comedy build up. A power struggle between the King and his...
Educational DVD-ROM. Directed and written by J. Bretton Truett. Bretton Truett and Fara Hope Zimmerman are the Macbeths.
Fiction film issued by Kalem in a two-reel instalment. The first is a story about an actress (Joyce) who is in love with an actor (Moore) and includes two stage scenes at least one of which the actress...
Video recording of Robin Phillips’ and William Hutt’s 1976 production of The Tempest for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. William Hutt is Prospero.
Satirical black comedy short. Elizabeth, miserable about her divorce, decides to kill herself in Shakespearean tragic style with many a soliloquy and a poisoned chalice. She is interrupted by the pizza...
Independent feature which translates the Henry IV plays to contemporary Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the black community. Harry Lennix is King Henry.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2001 production of Hamlet. Directed by Steven Pimlott with Samuel West as Hamlet.
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