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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...
R. A. Foakes, University of Kent, and Kenneth Muir, University of Liverpool, discuss the play. Side 2 comprises readings from the play.
G. H, Hunter and Martin Wright, University of Warwick, discuss the problems of heroic villainy in Macbeth, Richard III and The Jew of Malta.
Professor Philip Brockbank, University of Birmingham, and Alan Sinfield, University of Sussex, discuss the play and its tragic implications in the context of Elizabethan thought.
Joel Hurstfield, University College London, and A G R Smith, University of Glasgow, argue that this is an unusual play in tems of structure, motive and character. The speakers define its strangeness and...
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,...
Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham, and Professor Brian Morris, University of Sheffield discuss the play, looking at its structure as a dramatic expression of time, regeneration and forgiveness,...
W Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s Univesity College Wales discuss Hamlet. They relate it to its time and review external evidence that can help in understanding the...
Peter Hollindale, University of York, and Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham ask whether this play enacts ‘the education of a prince’. Prince Hal is considered in relation to Falstaff and...
W. Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. The character and dramatic presentation of Shylock form part of a wider discussion of...
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