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Deals with the literary and political context of the play. Focuses on key scenes which develop the ideas of kingship and honour. Considers the quarrel between Mowbray and Bolingbroke, Gaunt’s dying speech,...
Radio play written by St. John G. Ervine and adapted for broadcasting by Cyril Wood. Devised as a sequel to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, it takes place 10 years after the date of Antonio’s trial...
Verdi’s opera relayed in its entirety from the opening performance of the Covent Garden international opera season at the Royal Opera House, London. With Giovanni Martinelli as Otello and Fernanda Ciani as...
Verdi’s opera relayed from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House is conducted by Georg Solti. With James McCracken as Othello and Raina Kabaiwanska as Desdemona.
Melodrama. Alexandra Tranda awaits her father’s return. When the carriage comes up the drive she discovers his dead body hanging over the splashboard: he has been shot. Later her mother marries John...
Radio broadcast. First of a series of four brief ‘Discoveries’ investigating in a "free-mingling of recorded and imagined utterance" the theory that "much in Shakespeare criticism may have first emerged...
Radio version of the Davenant/Dryden/Shadwell adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest for which Henry Purcell wrote the music in 1695. With Robert Harris as Prospero. Constant Lambert conducts the Covent...
Studio performance of the music drama by Delius, a six-scene opera about lovers from feuding families set in the pastures of the Swiss Alps based on the novel by Gottfried Keller.
Television programme featuring scenes based on Cymbeline taken from Andre van Gyseghem’s Embassy Theatre production of the play. With Joyce Bland as Imogen and Geoffrey Toone as Posthumus.
Series looking at the poetry of the past six centuries. 1: Establishes the continuity and variety of English verse throughout the past six centuries using extracts from poems, with readings from Chaucer,...