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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library, What do we know about Shakespeare’s life? This episode considers not only that question, but two others: During the past four centuries, when and how did...
Filmed partly on location in Venice, the specially commissioned production of The Merchant of Venice emphasises contemporary issues of capitalism, feminism, and racism in the form of anti-semitism. Bob Peck...
Feature film. A loose reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a small coal mining village in Wales in 1911, a young Jewish peddler (Solomon) meets Gaenor, the eldest daughter of a Christian mining...
Radio series in which contemporary writers reflect on the theme of Jaques’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in the form of dramatic monologues. In the fifth episode, Patrick McCabe introduces his...
Television drama. Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival stage production directed for television by Bruce Minnix. George C. Scott is Shylock.
Documentary. The first part of the film tells the orthodox story of William Shakespeare of Stratford and the longstanding views held by academia. Professors Stanley Wells and Jonathan Bate defend the...
Radio broadcast. The play dramatised by Stephen Mulrine from Nikolai Leskov’s novel. With Blythe Duff as Katerina and James MacPherson as Sergei.
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.
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