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The pre-recorded programmes in this series combine academic criticism and actors’ rehearsals of key scenes and speeches. The scenes rehearsed on the second side of the tapes are directed by John Russell...
A. R. Humphreys, University of Leicester, and Anthony Nuttall, University of Sussex, discuss the character of Coriolanus and the play’s concept of nobility. Side 2 comprises readings by Robert Hardy,...
David Daiches, University of Sussex, and L C Knights, University of Cambridge, discuss the play. Hamlet, more than any other play, has produced many and divergent interpretations. The speakers consider 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...
Televised adaptation of the play which aims, according to producer Don Taylor, at ‘simplicity and understanding’ (Radio Times, 12 April 1962, p.51). Starring Robert Shaw as Leontes and Rosalie Crutchley...
Full-length televised adaptation of the play with John Bailey and Rosalie Crutchley in the title roles.
Radio broadcast. As part of a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays, this episode (19)...
Full-length radio version of Shakespeare’s play directed and produced by Charles Lefeaux with Stephen Murray as Lear heading a cast of members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company. Music composed by...
Second of a two-part production of Shakespeare’s play for radio. Acts 3, 4, and 5 of the play are arranged for broadcasting by Peter Dews. With Norman Shelley as Falstaff and Noel Johnson as Sir Walter Blunt.
First of a two-part production of Shakespeare’s play for radio. The first two acts of the play are arranged for broadcasting by Peter Dews. With Derek Hart as Henry, Prince of Wales and Norman Shelley as...