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A version of the play in which the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to recreating the flavour of 16th-century performance. With Jeremy Brett and Piper Laurie as the Macbeths.
Designed to show how the physical features of the Elizabethan stage influenced the work of Shakespeare. The duties of the bookholder, the props and costumes, actors in the ‘tiring room’, and boys playing...
BBC current affairs television programme. In this item presenter Vera Gilbert reports from St George’s Theatre, Tufnell Park, London. St George’s is an Elizabethan-style theatre which was converted from...
Video in which Dr Katrina Marchant looks at the life and career of William Kempe, a celebrated comic actor who originated several of Shakespeare’s characters on the stage.
A talk by actor and author Ben Crystal. "What would it have been like to go to the theatre in Shakespeare’s time? Just as the English language was going through great change, so was the city of London. The...
A version of the play which in the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to recreating the impression of 16th-century performance. Efrem Zimbalist Jnr is Prospero.
Instructional programme. Eileen Atkins and Brian Cox introduce scenes from Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and Othello. They play all the roles, changing costumes and make-up. Between scenes they give...
Video in which Dr Katrina Marchant looks at the life and career of Richard Burbage, the actor who originated many of Shakespeare’s greatest roles on the stage including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and...
Radio broadcast. Writer Iain Sinclair walks the streets of London in the company of historians, scholars and archaeologists, seeking out Shakespeare’s city in the London of today. He visits the court, the...
Shakespeare scholar and teacher Dr Robert Ornstein shows how Shakespeare players made use of the Elizabethan stage. It shows scenes from six plays to illustrate the simplicity, flexibility and neutrality of...
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