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Online videoblog hosted by the ‘Dark Lady’ alias E-Verse Contessa Jessica who offers a lexical compendium of words that Shakespeare coined from A-Z. Each weekly blog posting focuses on a different...
Sonnet 8 read in costume by Jane Lapotaire, followed by a discussion of the sonnet by Martin Best. The sonnet is performed again in light of the commentary.
Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. In this episode Bragg discusses Shakespeare’s treatment of what to Elizabethan...
Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...
Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...
Podcast from the Folger Institute Library. While print sales of adult fiction are down in the last decade, the juvenile market - which includes YA (Young Adults) - has gone up 40 percent. In this episode,...
Educational film. Actor Hans Conreid discusses aspects of Shakespeare’s works standing before a series of sculptured figures depicting memorable scenes from eight plays. Behind-the-scenes voices speak...
Released alongside an edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, the DVD features specially filmed performances of all 154 sonnets by a cast of actors which includes Fiona Shaw, Patrick Stewart,...
Schools radio broadcast. Dramatic reading by Harcourt Williams of scenes from Henry IV, Part 1.
Radio broadcast. The Times listings entry for this programme reads:'Life and death of "Falstaff," "Falstaff," Mr. Ivor Thomas: songs." (10 July 1923, p.12). The programme is preceded by a ca. 15-minute talk...
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