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Radio broadcast. Jonathan Bate examines Shakespeare’s international impact with speakers from Moscow, Barbados, Berlin and New York. He explores how Shakespeare’s plays have been interpreted across...
BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 5 writer and cultural historian Marina Warner considers Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural and...
Video podcasts. A collection of films made by the University of Warwick in conjunction with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust about the life and times of William Shakespeare. In this edition Professors...
Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, Professor/poet Phillis Levin, and Professor Jonathan Bate discuss the Sonnet and its poetic relevance. What is it about the Sonnet...
Professor Jonathan Bate speaks about his work editing a new edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare, and a report from the unveiling of a new statue of Macbeth by the artist Greg Wyatt in...
Author and academic Germaine Greer discusses Anne Hathaway and the commonly held beliefs about her and her marriage to William Shakespeare. Chaired by biographer Jonathan Bate and introduced by Maggie...
Three-part radio series presented by Jonathan Bate. In the first episode Bate shows how Elizabethans under Queen Elizabeth presided over a flowering of literature and maps and ‘discovered England’. Bate...
Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. In this episode Melvyn Bragg discusses Hamlet with Jonathan Bate, Carol Rutter and Sonia...
Radio series exploring the work of Renaissance nobleman and writer Michel de Montaigne. In this episode Jonathan Bate considers the relationship between Montaigne and Shakespeare. Excerpts from the essays...
Melvyn Bragg and his guests Jonathan Bate, Catherine Steel and Patrick Gray discuss Shakespeare’s versions of Roman history in Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and parts of Antony and Cleopatra.