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How did the staging of two simultaneous productions of Macbeth result in a riot that killed almost 30 people on May 10 1849? To shed light on this extraordinary event, Barbara Bogaev interviews two leading...
A talk by Professor Errol Hill based on his book of the same title (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984). The book charts the struggle of Afro-American actors, first as exiles, then in the...
Podcast. Sir Ian McKellen talks to Barbara Bogaev about Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Most recently he played the title role in Sean Mathias’ 2021 gender-, race-, and age-blind production at the Theatre Royal...
A discussion on King Lear, Measure for Measure, Othello and Troilus and Cressida. Also discussed are directing techniques and opera performances. The participants are Humphrey Tonkin (President of the...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Jeffrey R. Wilson (Harvard University) about his book ‘Shakespeare and Game of Thrones.' They discuss the ways that Shakespeare’s first historical tetralogy (Henry...
Television production of Romeo and Juliet commissioned for C4’s Middle English schools slot. Directed by Alan Horrox with Geraldine Somerville as Juliet and Jonathan Firth as Romeo.
Shakespeare’s play filmed by students at the California Institute of Technology and retold in Dr Seuss-style rhyme. Prince Hamlet wants to avenge his father’s murder, while his loyal servant Sam Iamlet...
One of a series of seven films produced by the National Geographic Society in association with the television station WQED, Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon University and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust,...
In the 1950s, all of Shakespeare’s works were performed over three summers during the Antioch Shakespeare Festival. Based in Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio; the festival was co-created by Arthur...
What did everyday life look like for women throughout Tudor society? A new social history, The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton, introduces us not only to the restrictions, but also to some of...
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