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Six-disc set of eleven television dramas from the BBC featuring Helen Mirren. Included are A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (13 December 1981) and CYMBELINE (10 July 1983) from the BBC Television Shakespeare...
Dame Helen Mirren looks back on one of her earliest television roles, playing Rosalind in the BBC’s 1978 production of the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It. She shares her thoughts on the potential that...
Video podcast hosted by Simon Godwin (Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company) and Drew Lichtenberg. This episode looks at Shakespeare on film with guests Dr. Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame),...
Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham, and Professor Brian Morris, University of Sheffield discuss the play, looking at its structure as a dramatic expression of time, regeneration and forgiveness,...
Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the cosmic nature of the play, its exposure of the elemental in man and of the barbaric world he...
Professor E A J Honigman, University of Newcastle, and John Dixon Hunt, University of York, explore the atmosphere of the play and its qualities of sadness and ‘dark’ comedy. Its mood of romantic dream...
Arts news and reviews radio programme with Mark Lawson. Includes an interview with Helen Mirren, who plays the leading role of Prospera in Julie Taymor’s film adaptation of The Tempest.
Feature film adaptation of the play. An abbreviated version in heightened style by actors wearing exaggerated make-up and stylised costumes. Hamlet is played by twin actors to show him as literally a split...
Television arts documentary series. A profile of Nigel Hawthorne as he prepares to play the title role in King Lear, directed by Ninagawa, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The programme follows him through...
Live sound recording of John Barton’s 1968 production of Troilus and Cressida for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Michael Williams and Helen Mirren in the title roles.
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