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A lecture given by A.L. Rowse at the 1983 Cheltenham Literary Festival. Professor Rowse lectures on historical writing as a branch of literature using Shakespeare’s sonnets, Love’s Labour’s Lost and...
Twenty four lectures in which Susan Sage Heinzelman of the University of Teaxas at Austin talks about literature and the law. Three of the lectures are on justice in The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure...
Lecture by Park Honan, author of Shakespeare: a Life, given at the Royal Society of Literature in 1998.
Talk by Richard Eyre, delivered to the Royal Society of Literature, about his production of King Lear for the National Theatre. Chaired by John Clifford Mortimer.
A talk by Frank Kermode as part of the ‘Chapter and Verse:1000 years of English Literature at the British Library’ exhibition. Recorded at the British Library Auditorium (London). The talk was tied to...
Edited from Zeffirelli’s version of The Taming of the Shrew, the film explores the relationship between men and women as portrayed in literature. Orson Welles contrasts Shakespeare’s comic treatment with...
Readings from Shakespeare by Joe Dixon and Claire Price. Elizabeth Kenny performs music composed for the lute by John Dowland, Robert Johnson and ‘Anon’. Recorded at the British Library Auditorium...
An exploration of Twelfth Night with material on Elizabethan England, theatre history, Shakespeare’s life and times, a series of guided tours and a glossary. Uses the metaphor of a theatre of memory to...
70 of Shakespeare’s sonnets read unabridged by actors including David Tennant, Anton Lesser and Juliet Stevenson. Directed and selected by David Timson.
In this short radio programme, solicitor and scholar Anthony Julius, lecturer of law and literature at University College, London, discusses whether a case of plagiarism can be made when linked to a creative...