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Video lecture by Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University) who interprets the anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice via the framework provided by Frantz Fanon in his essay, ‘The Fact of Blackness’.
Brief video (a taster for Yad Vashem’s online course, ‘Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present’) in which Professor David Nirenberg looks at the historical and cultural roots of Shakespeare’s...
Documentary about Gareth Armstrong’s SHYLOCK, a one-person show written and performed by Armstrong and directed by Frank Barrie. Includes a backstage interview with Armstong in which he discusses the...
Joel Hurstfield, Astor Professor of English History at University College, London questions whether Marlowe and Shakespeare ever met a Jew? Professor Hurstfield asks this question in the light of The Jew of...
Documentary. Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of The Merchant of Venice. Through a series of interviews, they examine the charge of...
Recording of a lecture by Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) looking at Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 wartime satire TO BE OR NOT TO BE (qv), analysing how it uses speeches from Shakespeare’s...
Recording of an online webinar, the fifth in a series examining Shakespeare and race. The event, focusing on Measure for Measure, is hosted by Professor Farah Karim-Cooper and the participants are Professor...
Recording of an online webinar, the fourth in a series examining Shakespeare and race. The event, focusing on Twelfth Night, is hosted by Dr Will Tosh and the participants are Associate Professor Arthur...
Recording of a live webinar, the third in a series examining Shakespeare and race from Shakespeare’s Globe. Hanh Bui, Dr Scott Manning Stevens and Madeline Sayet discuss the colonial context and...
In four sections, each consisting of an interview/workshop: Part 1: A survey of the stage history of Shylock, with particular reference to the changing interpretations of the role. With Dr Tom Matheson of...