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Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the...
Lavish and festive feature film adaptation of the play set in Tuscany and using a British and pan-American cast. Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation is ‘full of sunny high spirits and still terrific fun to...
Professor Michael Dobson (Shakespeare Institute) interviews actor John Kani about growing up in South Africa under apartheid, his career and his love of Shakespeare.
John Bell founded the Bell Shakespeare Company fifteen years ago. He speaks to Russell Woolf about some of the company’s philosophies.
Short. Queen Eleanor and King John ponder an unwelcome conflict with France over the crown. Suddenly, as if in answer to their plight, a mysterious stranger arrives, one who may be the bastard son of Richard...
Radio series. Second in a series of lectures by the actor John Bell. Here he looks at how power politics are reflected in Shakespeare’s work.
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at the ways history and legitimacy are complicated in this plotline.
Radio series. First in a series of lectures by the actor John Bell. Here he looks at the observations about life made by Shakespeare in his work.
Radio series. Third and last in a series of lectures by the actor John Bell. Here he explores Shakespeare’s depiction of women.
Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Professor Emma Smith introduces King John, her favourite of Shakespeare’s history plays.
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