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This chillingly dark comedy, based on the 1965 stage play by David Halliwell, was filmed in bleak, wintry Oldham in 1974 and has rarely been seen in almost 40 years. Expelled art student Scrawdyke leads his...
Video of a discussion between Dartmouth English professor Tom Luxon and Stratford dramaturg Keira Loughran. She discusses the role of Katherine in ‘Taming of the Shrew’; Volumnia in ‘Coriolanus’ and...
The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. Highlights this month include a...
A podcast lecture series focusing on a single play by Shakespeare, and employing a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching...
A panel discussion, moderated by Bill Buford, on Shakespeare’s tragedies and their continuing relevance. Director Matthew Warchus discusses his modern-dress production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare...
A video recording of Michel Docekal’s production of The Merchant of Venice. The role of Portia is played by David Prachar. No further details known (12/2007).
Radio broadcast. Matt Lucas explores Shakespeare’s comedies and examines whether they have an influence on current humour. Today we interpret comedy from a different perspective than 400 years ago - comedy...
Dame Helen Mirren looks back on one of her earliest television roles, playing Rosalind in the BBC’s 1978 production of the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It. She shares her thoughts on the potential that...
Fiction film. A backstage comedy drama in which an all-male theatre troupe gets together to perform highlights of Othello and other works of Shakespeare. Director Ricardo (Lluís Homar) finds himself...
Independent feature film offering a gay and lesbian Shakespeare film parody geared to a mainstream audience. Having just led the Scottish forces to victory, all Macbeth wants to do is go home, take a bubble...
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