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Educational television. John Bayley meets a teacher in a crisis. At Islington Green School, deputy head of English, Nick Smith, is teaching Year 11 vocational students Romeo and Juliet. But studying...
Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...
Television news and current affairs programme presented by Jeremy Paxman. Includes a Newsnight Review item (6.5mins) on the newly established Hip Hop Shakespeare Company. Kirsty Wark announces the launch of...
Children’s series featuring a Jack Russell terrier of the same name. The dog lives with his owner Joe Talbot in Oakdale, Texas, a fictional modern day neighbourhood, but he daydreams about being the star...
Lavish and festive feature film adaptation of the play set in Tuscany and using a British and pan-American cast. Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation is ‘full of sunny high spirits and still terrific fun to...
In this episode of the audio drama podcast series, Dr. Floyd (Doug Price) and Dr. Steve (Grant Baciocco) get the chance to play the parts of Wall and Lion in the production of Pyramus and Thisbe from William...
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...
Documentary. Lenny Henry tells how a comedian had a burning ambition to act in Shakespeare’s plays. There are brief extracts (rehearsal and performance) of Henry in Othello (Rutter’s 2009 production) and...
Television adaptation, heavily abridged, of Jane Austen’s novel. The scene in Chapter 34 in which Henry Crawford endeavours to recommend himself to Fanny Price by reading aloud from various characters in...
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