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Professor Robert Weimann of the Kunst Akademie, East Berlin, surveys the reception of Shakespeare’s plays in continental Europe over the last three centuries. As an example he looks at Hamlet.
Karin Beier’s 1997 production of The Tempest filmed for television by WDR. The modern-dress production employed 12 actors from nine countries. The multi-language production employed gender-blind casting,...
Video recording. Lecture (in English) by Pamela Allen Brown ahead of the publication of her book, The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage, which looks at the impact that European acting troupes...
Radio play by Anthony Burgess based on his short story of the same name. The story tells of a meeting between Shakespeare and Cervantes while the King’s Men entertain at an Anglo-Spanish peace conference...
Feature film. A contemporary musical re-working of The Taming of the Shrew.
Radio programme transmitted as part of the OU A361 Shakespeare course. The lecturer is Robert Wiemann.
Short feature. The film imagines that at the end of Romeo and Juliet Romeo does not die; the poison the apothecary sold him was watered down. Romeo now works at the supermarket checkout.
Feature film. Contemporary re-working of The Taming of the Shrew, Kate here being a multi-millionnaire heiress.
Feature film. A former theatre director, Dima Kamentsev, stages Richard III using young amateur actors. He engages a ‘difficult’ teenager, nicknamed ‘Milord’ to play the part of Richard. No further...
Documentary about the organist Peter Amundsen who believes that he can prove that Francis Bacon wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to Shakespeare. The story is told by actor and academic Robert Crumpton...
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