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Independent short. Stephen Linton is a classically trained stage actor who has made the transition to Hollywood stardom. His fame has made him plenty of money but his poor choice of roles has brought him...
Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...
Made for television film. The play is set in the late 1940s, and tells the story about an official in a small mountain village and his attempt to put on a production of Hamlet. It was interpreted as a sharp...
Feature film adapted from the novel by John Barth. Jacob Horner (Keach) is an emotionally disturbed young college professor who enters a catatonic state and undergoes therapy from an unorthodox psychologist,...
Professor Stanley Wells and Dr Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, discuss issues arising from the study of Shakespeare’s...
The play’s theme of ‘poison’ is explored, both in the physical sense of the three poisoning episodes, and in the figurative sense of subtly spreading corruption and evil.
Low-budget, feature-length version of the play in a modern urban London setting. According to The Guardian (2019), director Christine Edzard makes it into a ‘thinly veiled commentary on the inequalities of...
A one-off special variety sketch show. The show was taped in London in (ATV’s studios) and satirises the English. Sketches include Carol and Fred as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; Anne Boleyn writing an...
Shakespeare’s play filmed by students at the California Institute of Technology and retold in Dr Seuss-style rhyme. Prince Hamlet wants to avenge his father’s murder, while his loyal servant Sam Iamlet...
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