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Webcast. Shakespeare was fascinated with family dynamics, often using them to fuel his plots with familial jealousy, lust, murder, mistaken identity and long-lost siblings. Many of his works share characters...
Webcast. Harold Bloom lectures on Shakespeare and the nature of genius.
Possibly earliest sound recording of the opening lines of Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy, spoken by a man’s voice on a wax cylinder disc. The recording is an example of experiments...
The emeritus professor of English Literature from La Trobe University, Paul Salzman gives an overview of he early publications of Shakespeare’s work. He describes how the plays were published individually...
As a two-year global celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s work commences, Neva Grant interviews two experts on the great composer to explore his legacy and the creation of the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet,...
Televised adaptation of the play with Maurice Denham as Caesar and Robert Stephens as Mark Antony.
Low-budget, modern dress, adaptation of Macbeth. Macbeth is conceived as a bland, corporate hatchet man, the three witches as svelte clubbers, and the porter a doorman at a comedy club. The settings include...
The only known footage of the stage production of Macbeth produced by the Negro Theatre Unit of the Federal Theatre project of the WPA and directed by Orson Welles. The play was staged at the New Lafayette...
This episode of the original Star Trek series not only takes its title from Hamlet (II.ii.606) but also incorporates plot elements from Shakespeare’s play, or rather plays: an ‘old-fashioned’...