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American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth’s successor, King James I. One of the new king’s first official acts was to name Shakespeare a...
Comedic radio play by Marty Ross set in the Scottish Highlands in 1605. The royal playwright Shaxberd saves King James from assassination and attempts to save an innocent girl from being burnt as a witch....
Radio play by David Pownall, directed by Eoin O’Callaghan. Set in England in 1610, an historical fiction about the publication of the King James I’s new Bible. It tells the story of how the King (Hugh...
Radio play in one act written by H. F. Rubinstein and produced by Martin Jenkins. Set in the library of the Earl of Pembroke’s house in Wiltshire on 2 December 1603, it speculates what might have happened...
This six-episode podcast miniseries looks at the political currents that influenced Shakespeare and how they apply to the world today. Hosted by Isaac Butler. If a nation can be thought of as a family,...
Radio drama written by L. A. Strung on the career of Ben Jonson. Carleton Hobbs speaks the part of William Shakespeare, Alexander Sarner is Inigo Jones and Ian Fleming plays James I.
Television series, in six episodes, on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Writer John Mortimer based each episode around events in Shakespeare’s life to suggest how they influenced his writing. In...
Radio programme celebrating the four hundreth anniversary of the performance of King Lear, the new play offered to King James I and his guests at Whitehall Palace on Boxing Day 1606. Presenter Francine Stock...
Concluding episode in a three-part docuseries on the life and work of William Shakespeare, combining interviews with drama vignettes. 3. Shakespeare’s life and legacy is threatened when the Gunpowder Plot...
Television drama. Written by John Mortimer, this six-part drama based on the sixteen years that William Shakespeare is known to have spent in London remains one of the most ambitious biographical portraits...
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