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Poetry celebration of Shakespeare with focus on his sonnets and the use of poetry in his plays. Poetry readings by actors Ion Caramitru and Michael Pennington. The following sonnets and extracts were read at...
Recording of a Zoom lecture by actor Callum Coates in which he discusses how Shakespeare’s plays would have been produced at the time and Sam Wanamaker’s long efforts to rebuild the Globe (Coates was...
Short. Comprised of Shakespeare’s sonnets 60, 64 and 65. A young woman ruminates on the fragility of nature and its impact on her own mortality.
Radio broadcast. Programme illustrating Shakespeare’s thoughts on time as drawn from his sonnets and his verse.
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss some of the scholars who have written about Shakespeare and his work. This includes: Francis Meres, John Weever, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Alexander...
29 of Shakespeare’s sonnets delivered by four young people (collectively and individually) in pastoral settingsas well as at the breakfast table, over the telephone, and as a stand-up comedy routine....
Recording of a live streamed performance featuring soprano Sarah Pillow, lutenist Ronn McFarlane and actor Sorab Wadia. They perform ballads and love songs with Shakespeare, the music chosen from songs...
Educational videotape. Extracts from five key speeches and soliloquies from Hamlet examined to highlight Hamlet’s indecision and turmoil throughout the play. The extracts are: I ii ‘O, that this too, too...
Sonnet 65 read in costume by Jane Lapotaire, followed by a discussion of the sonnet by Stephen Spender. The sonnet is then performed again in light of the commentary.
Documentary short written and directed by George Fleming which combines Shakespeare with modern Britain to to produce a poetic documentary about a modern British family. [Description summarised from that...
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