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Documentary compilation. A commemoration of the coronation of King George VI, released during coronation week. It relates the story of the British Empire from 1895 to George’s proclamation as king....
Radio broadcast. Jonathan Bate examines Shakespeare’s international impact with speakers from Moscow, Barbados, Berlin and New York. He explores how Shakespeare’s plays have been interpreted across...
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,...
A ‘Shakespeare Night’ programme transmitted in two parts. Initiated by the British Empire Shakespeare Society, the programme was comprised of play readings. Part 1: 'Trial scene’ and ‘Casket...
Newsfilm. The laying of the foundation stone for the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre by Lord Ampthill on 2 July 1929. View of the old theatre; members of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Warwickshire and...
Radio feature. Author and historian Jerry Brotton investigates the history of relations between England and the Islamic world during the early modern period, a complex alliance that he finds dramatised in...
War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...
Radio programme. Members of The British Empire Society perform scenes from Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and one extract from Hamlet. The transmission of these extracts is alternated with the following...
Feature film. A re-working in film noir style of Hamlet. Old Hamlet is president of a Helsinki timber mining and shipping empire. He is poisoned by his managing director, Klaus (Salminen), so that he and...
British B-feature. Julius Caesar enacted in a big business setting. Julian Caesar, chairman of Empire Petroleum, trys to effect a merger, but Cassius, a jealous director plots to overthrow him. A clause in...
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