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In this interview, Dr. Earl Showerman explores whether A Midsummer Night’s Dream contains allegorical references satirising Queen Elizabeth’s relationship with Francois Hercule Valois, the Duc of...
First in a twelve-part series of schools talks by J.C. Stobart and R.E. Jeffrey about the portrayal of kings in Shakespeare’s plays. This introductory episode focuses on the monarch under which Shakespeare...
Two-part television drama chronicling the later years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. In the theatrical DVD version there is a scene which was not included in the second part of the broadcast programme....
Radio programme on the acoustic archaeology of Elizabethan England. Historian Elizabeth Goldring, acoustic archaeologist Bruce Smith, lutenist Anthony Rooley, bell ringer Simon Meyer and voice coach Stewart...
Three-part radio series presented by Jonathan Bate. In the first episode Bate shows how Elizabethans under Queen Elizabeth presided over a flowering of literature and maps and ‘discovered England’. Bate...
A film made for television based on Timothy Findlay’s two-act play, directed by Martha Henry, for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Queen Elizabeth condemns her lover, the Earl of Essex, to...
Allan Armstrong interviews Dr. Sabrina Feldman, author of The Apocryphal William Shakespeare. This episode looks at such works as The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, Mucedorus, Fair Em, and The...
Allan Armstrong interviews Dr. Sabrina Feldman, author of The Apocryphal William Shakespeare. This episode looks at works that satirised the work of Shakespeare, labelling him as a social-climbing...
Short. Set in post-apocalyptic England, the story revolves around the memoirs found on Richard III’s dead body at the battlefield of Bosworth. It delves into his imagination, showing his fantasies,...
Radio programme on Shakespeare’s dramatic use of contemporary music and songs. Alec Guinness, who presents the programme, is supported by the Dolmetsch Consort of Viols and Recorders, and players,...
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