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Professor Robert Weimann of the Kunst Akademie, East Berlin, surveys the reception of Shakespeare’s plays in continental Europe over the last three centuries. As an example he looks at Hamlet.
Radio broadcast. In this talk about Shakespeare’s sonnets and the problems that they raise, G. Wilson Knight surveys recent literature on the sonnets, particularly Leslie Hotson’s book Mr. W. H. (1964),...
Slide set. Voltaire was the dominant figure in French dramatic production in the 18th century, and his influence as a tragedian spread throughout Europe. The slide set surveys his contribution to the...
CD ROM providing a visual and educational insight into Shakespeare’s life in Elizabethan England. Illustrated with photographs of buildings (aerial and ground shots) in and around Stratford-upon-Avon with...
Sixth talk in a series of radio programmes that introduces various fields of research within Shakespearean studies. J.I.M. Stewart, author of Character and Motive in Shakespeare, surveys theories on the...
Podcast recorded from the Rose Theatre Birthday Lecture, by Charles Nicholl. Introduced by Professor Richard Wilson. Nicholl discusses ‘Counterfeit Presentments’ from Hamlet and surveys contemporary...
Radio broadcast. Louise Swan surveys film adaptations of Shakespeare, examining the work of directors such as Laurence Olivier, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Derek Jarman, Kozintsev, Max Reinhardt,...
Feature film adapted from the novel by John Barth. Jacob Horner (Keach) is an emotionally disturbed young college professor who enters a catatonic state and undergoes therapy from an unorthodox psychologist,...
Video recording, using three cameras, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of King Lear. Directed by Adrian Noble with Robert Stephens as Lear.
Video recording, using three cameras,of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of King Lear. Directed by Adrian Noble with Robert Stephens as Lear.
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