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Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, Professor/poet Phillis Levin, and Professor Jonathan Bate discuss the Sonnet and its poetic relevance. What is it about the Sonnet...
Radio play by Don Taylor. Asked by one of the Earl of Essex’s agents to stage Richard II, William Shakespeare (Michael Pennington) and other members of the Globe Theatre Company are drawn into a conspiracy...
Radio broadcast. The Western Studio Orchestra lead by Frank Thomas plays incidental music to Shakespeare’s plays. Nicolai’s Overture for The Merry Wives of Windsor is followed by Mendelssohn’s Scherzo...
Televised adaptation of the play which aims, according to producer Don Taylor, at ‘simplicity and understanding’ (Radio Times, 12 April 1962, p.51). Starring Robert Shaw as Leontes and Rosalie Crutchley...
Live audio recording of a performance of Much Ado About Nothing directed for the National Theatre in 1965 by Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Stephens is Benedick and Maggie Smith, Beatrice. Ian McKellen plays...
Television production of the play directed by Don Taylor with Tyler Butterworth (Proteus) and John Hudson (Valentine).
Feature film. Haunting and unsparing in the realism, Polanski’s unique and pessimistic vision confronts both the dark comic elements and terror of the play’s violence. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis are...
Video recording of a performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor staged as part of the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival. Directed by Richard E.T. White with Gail Chugg as Falstaff.
A videorecording of the play staged at the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles in 1979 for the Shakespeare Society of America in which the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to...
Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2012 modern dress production of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Philip Breen. Desmond Barrit is Falstaff.