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By showing Londoners of various occupations visiting the Globe theatre during Elizabethan times, the film reveals the social life of the age, which is then related to the writings of Sir Thomas More, Richard...
The complete works of William Shakespeare, with major scenes illustrated with reproductions of original woodcuts. Includes instant search facility for a word or phrase, complete concordance, custom fonts,...
Schools radio broadcast on Shakespeare’s poetry. Part of a series on English poets and poetry planned by Mary Somerville and written by Stephen Potter.
Radio broadcast of Robert Browning’s poetic take on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in which Caliban reflects on life, religion and human nature. The poem is read by Cecil Trouncer.
Six-part series, aimed at 15-18 year olds, about imagery in English literature presented by Professor W.M. Merchant. Episode five deals with Macbeth. Readers are Paul Curran and Beryl Bainbridge. No further...
Radio broadcast. In this talk about Shakespeare’s sonnets and the problems that they raise, G. Wilson Knight surveys recent literature on the sonnets, particularly Leslie Hotson’s book Mr. W. H. (1964),...
Storytelling. Kevin Eldon reads What Do You Say?, a twisted tale about a man driven to insanity by a repetitive stranger. In Fakespeare, written by Toby Davies and narrated by Rebecca Front, a writer of...
Radio broadcast, in two half hour episodes, of Twelfth Night directed by Orson Welles. Information taken from Jensen, Michael P. ‘Radio’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares (p. 572,...
Radio broadcast for schools. In this English Literature series, I. M. Pagan identifies folklore tales that are interwoven in Shakespeare plays. This episode focuses on Hamlet.
Tape-slide. Shows how Shakespeare used poetry within the context of his plays, the sources of his major narrative poems, the form and content of his sonnets, the circumstances which may have influenced him...
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