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As part of the Shakespeare 400 celebrations, Professor Russ McDonald explores how Shakespeare’s work has influenced composers. He focuses on Dvorak’s Othello overture which was performed by the London...
Video of the first lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate discusses Shakespeare’s childhood, when he learned London, and his...
Short video by J. Draper, London AV content creator and tour guide, in which she explores changing modes relating to sexuality and identity and possible clues to Shakespeare’s own orientation.
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...
Animation. The film explores the internal landscape of the helpless and broken King Lear, layering live action, pin hole photography and mix media drawn animation.
Animation. Ophelia 2.0 is an animated short inspired by the John Everett Millais painting. Ophelia is transported to the future of 2016; the viewer experiences what she sees and touches in the last moments...
In his new book, "London’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers and Money in Shakespeare’s City", Stephen Alford reveals the enormous transitions underway in London during the preiod when Shakespeare lived...
Podcast. Thomas Jones talks to Charles Nicholl about the craze in the 1590s for plays representing real-life murder on the London stage, from the first known example, Arden of Faversham, to the genre’s...
Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition he talks to Lucy Munro (King’s College, London) abut her new book, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men,...
Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London) on how successive plagues in Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, and the memory of plagues, affected Londoners,...
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