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Radio documentary. Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, examines Shakespeare’s indoor playhouse, the immensely influential but now little-known Blackfriars Theatre. He...
Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition, Fiona Ritchie (McGill University) discusses her forthcoming book on 18th-century theatre, Shakespeare in the...
Radio broadcast. In this two-part programme Professor Michael Dobson explores the history of outdoor Shakespeare productions. The second episode (30/07/2007) focuses on the amateur theatre company.
Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the developments...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Dr. Joyce Green MacDonald about four Black women who performed Shakespeare professionally between 1821 ands 1960 in the USA: The African Grove Theatre’s "Miss Welsh,"...
A tape-slide presentation that introduces English theatre and traces the development of theatre design and acting styles. Comments on the influential playwrights and actors within each period.
The story behind the preservation of the Rose Theatre, over which the Rose Court office development is built. It reveals the problems that were caused after the remains of the Shakespearean theatre were...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Stephen Marche about his new book, How Shakespeare Changed Everything, which catalogues the myriad ways in which the playwright’s work influenced the world.
An introduction to Shakespeare and his times, focusing on the audience and actors in Shakespearean theatre and illustrating the historical context of the plays. Looks at what it was like to be in the...
Radio broadcast. Series in which Fiona Shaw tries to recreate the sounds of England during Shakespeare’s time. In the final episode Shaw considers what sounds the stage audiences would have heard in 1600.
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