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Recording of an online lecture by Dr Anthony Quinn, introduced by Rossella M. Riccobono, that looks in detail at the 1936 MGM film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by George Cukor. Followed by...
Radio broadcast. Presenter Jane Little interviews the Jewish playwright Julia Pascal about her adaptation of The Merchant of Venice at the Arcola Theatre in London. In Pascal’s version, holocaust survivor...
Radio talk broadcast as a preface to a transmission of Dryden/Davenant’s adaptation of The Tempest revised for the musical stage by Thomas Shadwell (see separate entry). W. W. Robson, Fellow of Lincoln...
Video essay by Audrey Loomis, a Senior from University of Texas at Austin, as part of her thesis on gendered Shakespeare adaptation. Along with several interviews with theatre artists, it also features...
As a two-year global celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s work commences, Neva Grant interviews two experts on the great composer to explore his legacy and the creation of the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet,...
Radio broadcast of G.B. Shaw’s Foreword to his rewriting of Act V of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (Cymbeline Refinished, 1937). Read by Noel Illif.
Panel podcast. A recording of the panel on the John Barton and Peter Hall Wars of the Roses adaptation with Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Heather Neill, and Alex Waldmann. Frank Whately,...
German radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s King John, adapted and produced for radio by Hans Rothe. As its title suggests, the adaptation focuses on the fate of Arthur, nephew to the king, who becomes victim...
Porn film. An adaptation of Macbeth set in a castle in Budapest. Courtney Lehman (op cit) makes a case for the film being ‘a surprisingly faithful adaptation’ , offering a ‘provocative example of the...
Radio broadcast accompanying Dickon Reed’s 6 one-hour adaptation of Henry IV and Henry V. John Wain, author of ‘The Living World of Shakespeare’ (1978), actor Alan Howard and Michael Billington, drama...
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