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Recording of an online lecture on Shakespeare’s personality and very person, split into two parts. In the first Bruce Donehowe looks at Shakespeare using a lens provided by Rufolf Steiner, then Fred...
The personality and philosophy of William Shakespeare against the background of the town life and countryside of his day: filmed partly in Warwickshire and London, the programme examines the sights and...
Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and literary critics Harold Bloom and Jacqueline Rose discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare and Bloom’s claim that personality, as we understand it...
Video recording of an experimental staging of Hamlet. There are three Hamlets in the production, sometimes taking turns, sometimes together on stage reflecting Hamlet’s schizophrenia. The arrangement...
Literary critic Harold Bloom talks to Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins about his new book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. Bloom explains his view that Shakespeare, through his writing, created the...
Feature film adaptation of the play. An abbreviated version in heightened style by actors wearing exaggerated make-up and stylised costumes. Hamlet is played by twin actors to show him as literally a split...
Documentary. Attempts to recreate Elizabethan times to gain insight into Shakespeare’s life and personality.The programme, hosted by Willis F. Woods, was videotaped on location at the Detroit Institute of...
in this last episode of a six-part comedy series about the world of Shakespeare, Dingle and his Company re-enact great Shakespearean moments from cinematic history. They are assisted by British actor and...
Television documentary series. The series examines the influence of famous British people. From a list of 100 people nominated by the public, the list was reduced to ten, each personality then becoming the...
R.A. Foakes, University of Kent, and A.R. Humphreys, University of Leicester, argue that the themes of love and power, with their underlying tensions and instabilities, are central to the play, and that the...