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Expanded version of an illustrated presentation by Roger Stritmatter first delivered at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship symposium on 10 April 2021. It explores the possible hidden meanings behind Ben...
Radio drama written by L. A. Strung on the career of Ben Jonson. Carleton Hobbs speaks the part of William Shakespeare, Alexander Sarner is Inigo Jones and Ian Fleming plays James I.
Radio play for children written by L. du Garde Peach and produced by Derek McCullough. The plot which encompasses the lives of Burbage, Shakespeare, Francis Drake, and Ben Jonson, touches on themes commonly...
Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...
Arts series. Writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr champions some Renaissance dramatists whose stories have been neglected because they worked at the same time as William Shakespeare. Marr believes our...
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...
Cult CBC radio comedy sci-fi adventure serial. Johnny and Dante time travel to Elizabethan England to try and find out who wrote Shakespeare’s plays. They find themselves involved in an assassination...
Video recording of the performance of The Phoenix and the Turtle. Edited and staged by Deborah Shaw and introduced by Michael Wood.
Documentary recounting the life and times of Shakespeare. Embarrassing dramatised reconstructions of life in Elizabethan England are given some intellectual rigour in the interspersed observations by Dr...
Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, director Michael Bogdanov, and Professor Germaine Greer discuss the work of Shakespeare. Does Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare...