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An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by G. Blakemore Evans. Michael Sheen and Kate Beckinsale in the title roles.
The storm scene in King Lear is examined, discussing how the balance can be maintained between the strength of the text and conveying the range of the weather. Four theatrical groups have two days to devise,...
Celia Imrie, Kenneth Cranham and Fiona Shaw consider and discuss the themes of discord and misunderstanding in family life found in King Lear, and the reasons which may account for the continued popularity...
Cross-dressing and ambiguous sexuality in Shakespeare’s plays is discussed by actresses Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson and director Deborah Warner. Follows the progress of a theatre workshop on the...
Explores Measure for Measure and the questions it raises around morality and virginity against its setting of corruption, and in particular the moral dilemma facing the heroine. Follows Fiona Shaw as she...
A programme to mark the opening of the newly reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Features Act IV of Henry V, with Richard Oliver directing Mark Rylance as Henry. Includes extracts from the...
Television documentary. Charts the realisation of Sam Wanamaker’s ambition to build a theatre on the South Bank of the Thames, where Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre once stood. Follows escalation of tensions...
Television programme. An irreverent look at Shakespeare’s Hamlet with contributions from actors, many of them American. At one point John Sessions and Kenneth Branagh perform the ‘to be, or not to be,...
A version of Macbeth set on the Ladywood council estate in Birmingham.
Explores the authenticity of Henry V and considers the methods of its enactment and emphasis in the first performance in 1599 to the 1944 Olivier film version. There are contributions from a film historian,...
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