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Television documentary series for schools. Broadcast in five episodes, the series examined Hamlet. Commentary by Martin Worth. Introduced by Ernest Clark.
Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Incidental Music Op. 61 played by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The Orchestra and the Scottish Philharmonic Singers are conducted by Jaime Laredo. The Opus 61...
The Merchant of Venice acted by students of the University of Cambridge directed by Douglas Morse. Tom Yarrow is Shylock.
Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode, the last in the series, looks at Shakespeare’s late plays, the ones Coleridge dubbed ‘romances’ including Cymbeline, The...
A collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets read by actors, and songs inspired by the sonnets. The many performers include John Gielgud, Annie Lennox, Richard Attenborough, Peter Barkworth, Bryan Ferry, Kenneth...
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss what they think should be Shakespeare’s most popular plays. Their criteria was based on judging the works based on: Characters, Plot/story,...
Podcasts. Hosts Fred Dakin and Tom Stadler are joined by Beth Ann and Patrick Schmitz to discuss adaptations of Shakespeare’s work. Titles discussed include Disney’s The Lion King, Orson Welles’ Chimes...
Radio documentary. Twice a week for almost ten years 61-year-old actor Bob Smith (author of the memoir Hamlet’s Dresser) has travelled to New York City from his home in Connecticut to read Shakespeare with...
Short drama by Francesca Martinez in response to Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 61. Music by Nina Whiteman. Maxine Peake reads "Is it thy will, thy image should keep open/My heavy eyelids to the weary night?".
Podcast from the Folger Institute Library. In this episode Stephen Greenblatt expands upon the talk he gave earlier in 2016 for the Folger Institute’s Shakespeare Anniversary Lecture Series, about how...
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