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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...
Documentary film recalling the first Elizabethan age through surviving architecture, art, furniture, music and literature. The music, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is played by the London Sinfonia and sung by...
First of a four-part radio series, written and presented by Charles Chilton, examining four centuries of London life through music and literature of times. In this portrait, "Chilton describes the city and...
Series which examines original texts, manuscripts, letters and diaries to uncover the story behind the creation of six classic books. Simon Russell Beale has long been fascinated with Shakespeare’s First...
Ellen Terry reciting Ophelia’s speech from Act IV v 5. beginning ‘Dear maid, kind sister...". The speech is included in GREAT HISTORICAL SHAKESPEARE RECORDINGS issued by Naxos (Catalogued separately).
16-part television series, presented by John Gielgud, on the history of poetry in the English language. This episode follows Shakespeare’s development as dramatist and poet. Presents extracts from Romeo...
DVD presenting six half-hour programmes that contain spoken texts from Shakespeare’s play linked with musical excerpts within a given theme. The programmes are centred on vocal excerpts but also contain...
Poet Ian McMillan hosts late night entertainment with a roundtable of writers celebrating Shakespeare’s language. Benet Brandreth, a rhetoric coach, has written a new novel imagining Shakespeare’s lost...
A one-act take on Hamlet in the stand-up comedy genre, The boy/man, accompanied by dog Horatio and his air guitar, turns up in a dream/nightmare world. The original text becomes an amalgam of The Simpsons,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The 2015 Shakespeare Birthday lecture delivered by Lynne Magnusson, Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Prof. Magnusson shows how a set of small...
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