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Documentary. A film which contends that hatred of Jews goes back 2,000 years, culminating with the near destruction of European Jewry. Argues that for the last 400 years, Western attitudes towards Jews have...
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Brian Cummings. Cummings argues that the biography of Shakespeare is a paradox. Is he our...
Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2015 staging of The Merchant of Venice directed by Polly Findlay. Makram J. Khoury is Shylock.
Six-part documentary series on the history of global finance written and presented by Professor Niall Ferguson. In this first episode Ferguson speaks (c 10 mins) about the history of usary, referring to...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare and his plays are woven deeply into the culture of the Caribbean, both white and black. Even after centuries of British colonial rule came to an end,...
The Merchant of Venice set in contemporary California and focusing on the relationship between Bassanio and Antonio. The film is a modern re-telling of the play - a Jewish woman is raped in broad daylight...
Feature film emerging from the Dogme 95 manifesto and the first to be filmed outside Scandinavia in the English language. 10 tourists, travelling by bus in the Namibian desert, are stranded when the bus runs...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of The Merchant of Venice. Directed by Bill Alexander with Antony Sher as Shylock.
Two sessions given during the First World Shakespeare Congress, held in Vancouver, B.C. Peter Brook is interviewed in Paris by Moelwyn Merchant. Merchant outlines the qualities which have made Peter Brook...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2002 touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Richard Jones with Tim McMullan as Oberon and Volanda...
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