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Part of a summer holiday series broadcast for children, this BBC radio programme encompasses ‘Songs from Shakespeare, ‘A Rustic Rehearsal’ in which Bottom et al prepare Pyramus and Thisbe for...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Dr. Erika T. Lin (CUNY Graduate Center) about holiday tradiitons in Shakespeare’s time and how these were represented in his plays.
Comedy short. An exhausted Shakespearean actor, on holiday in an isolated ranch in Arizona, is forced to put on an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet awakens in her tomb and sings ‘O Bury Me...
In this BBC Children’s Hour programme presenter James Pestridge takes two Midland children on a tour of some of Shakespeare’s boyhood possible haunts in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the Shakespeare Memorial...
Nowhere fired Shakespeare’s Imagination quite like Italy. But as Francesco Da Mosto argues in this new two part series, Italian cities meant far more to our greatest author than just a sunlit setting....
Graham Holiday’s radio play is about an amateur dramatic company staging of the famously unlucky play. Michael, the director (Geoffrey Collins), casts his wife and best friend Frank as the Macbeths, little...
Feature film adapted by Michael Palin from the travel diaries of his greatgrandfather. Francis Ashby, a fellow of Oxford College, falls in love with Elinor, an American girl of 17, while on a walking...
A modern television version of Shakespeare’s play with contemporary dialogue. The comedy is transferred to the Dream Park holiday centre where Theo and Polly have come to celebrate their daughter’s...
Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play arranged and produced by Raymond Raikes. With Francis de Wolff as Duke of Ephesus.
A DEFA feature film about a childhood friendship that turns into first love. The blossoming love between 14-year old Karoline (Kareen Schröter) and 15-year old Robert (Harald Rathmann) is hampered by the...