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Educational television. RSC Learning Network teacher Jude Graham uses drama strategies to compare the character of Prospero in two key scenes of The Tempest. She helps a class pinpoint key changes in the...
A modern television interpretation of Shakespeare’s play, with contemporary dialogue, presented as a screwball comedy and set in a provincial newsroom. Beatrice and Benedick discuss and analyse Sonnet 116...
Feature film version of the play, with a heavily cut text based on Pasternak’s translation. The political stance of the film-maker is to the fore, and the cinematography stark and elemental. recently...
What would happen if you made a boring old set text into a high-school romcom?. Junger’s adaptation, set in a suburban Seattle high school is ‘smart and sassy, a brightly contemporary retelling of The...
Television drama. Tom Sturridge is King Henry and Benedict Cumberbatch Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...
Derek Jacobi discusses Richard II. Jacobi comments on his own interpretation of Richard in the BBC Television Shakespeare series and states at the end of the programme that knowing what he knows about the...
Independent and self-funded documentary. Actors/directors Dan Poole and Giles Terera travel the world asking actors, directors, students and the public about their experiences of Shakespeare.
Documentary. Ethan Hawke presents a documentary on Macbeth. Excerpts: MACBETH (CBC, 1962) d. Paul Almond. MACBETH (1971) d. Polanski. MACBETH (2001) d. Doran. MACBETH (2010) d. Goold. There is also a...
Trevor Nunn discusses The Tempest and considers how much of Shakespeare’s last play is autobiographical. Excerpts: THE TEMPEST (1908). d. Percy Stow FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) d. Fred Wilcox THE TEMPEST...
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