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Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to writer Ian Doescher about his book ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope’ and other titles in his series of pop culture appropriations re-written in the...
Panel podcast. A recording of the panel on the John Barton and Peter Hall Wars of the Roses adaptation with Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Heather Neill, and Alex Waldmann. Frank Whately,...
Ron Rosenbaum talks about his book The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups, published by Random House. Rosenbaum took seven years to research and write his book about...
Podcast with Graham Holderness, Alison Findlay and Michael Hattaway. Graham Holderness begins with discussing how Shakespeare’s first tetralogy becomes the trilogy of the Wars of the Roses and how this...
Steve Purcell (University of Warwick) introduces a live staged performance of excerpts from Ian Doescher’s novel, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, the first in a series of comic pastiches told in...
Independent short. 1967. A young student struggles to write a screenplay that will combine STAR WARS with SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
The RSC’s landmark production of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy and Richard III. Adapted and directed for the stage by Peter Hall and John Barton, The Wars of the Roses was acknowledged on its premiere...
Radio entertainment show in which presenter Marcus Brigstocke cajoles guests into experiencing something very everyday for the first time. In this episode, the culturally well-endowed comedian and political...
Dame Janet Suzman looks back on her role as Joan of Arc in the BBC’s 1965 adaptations of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses. Under the direction of John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare adaptations are a proud tradition. Prokofiev turned Romeo and Juliet into a ballet. Verdi turned Macbeth and Othello into operas, and The Taming of...
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