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A video recording of the stage production of Charles Gildon’s play performed by the Shakespeare Institute Players of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.
Podcast of a one-day seminar on ‘Shakespeare’s Philosophy’ hosted by the Department of English Royal Holloway, University of London in 2010. Professor Wilson talks about how Shakespeare’s plots turn...
US domestic comedy drama series. In this episode David tries to help his dad out by setting him up to buy an engagement ring for Abby from a friend at work, with predictable results. Meanwhile, Joanie...
Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in Phyllida Law’s 2011 production of Verdi’s Macbeth. Simon Keenlyside is Macbeth making his debut in the role.
US comedy short series. Inspired by the success of his favourite comedian Red Skelton, Froggy (Billy Laughlin) decides to become a radio star. Armed with a tattered joke book and an array of ‘funny’...
Audio podcast. Second episode of a radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Adapted by Catherine Eaton and Nat Cassidy, rendered into modern English verse by Aditi Brennan Kapil. Part of...
Radio drama written by Sam Dann. The quotation ‘how sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/To have a thankless child’ prefaces the programme. The story is set in 1900s Vienna where a kindly Jewish couple...
James Earl Jones recites Othello’s testimony before the senators (I iii) at an evening of poetry, music and spoken word hosted by President Obama in the East Room of The White House on 12 May 2009. There...
Secular cantatas composed by Thomas Linley (1756-1788); libretto by French Lawrence. Lorna Anderson and Julia Gooding (sopranos) and Richard Wistreich, (bass) with The Parley of Instruments Baroque...
RKO comedy short. A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over the source of Shakespearean speeches. Lanier (op cit) notes that the film is ‘revealing for its assumptions about the highbrow status...
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