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Follows four schools as they take part in the Shakespeare Schools Drama Festival, filming them as they cast and rehearse their plays, preparing for a final performance in Greenwich Theatre, London. The film...
Three programmes relating to course AA306: Band 1) Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth: includes an interview with Roman Polanski about his film production of Macbeth and excerpts from a performance of the play...
Shows how a full set of ‘Greenwich’ armour of the 1580’s, weighing 74 pounds and consisting of 222 individual plates, was put on. Uses the setting of Bodiam Castle in Sussex. Combined on one...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 27 in the series. This edition looks at how Shakespeare is stretched to tell a story of contemporary Hong Kong and colonialism in two important...
Documentary, directed by Chris Marker, which records his days on location with Akira Kurosawa during the filming of RAN. Narrated by Robert Kramer, the film is divided into segments such as battles’,...
A US drama series re-enacting major historical events and covering them as current news stories. This episode concerns December 26 1597 when Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was selected by Queen Elizabeth I...
Last in a radio series on Shakespeare’s ‘Best Supporting female roles’. Presenter Judi Herman talks to some of the women playing parts of the ‘country wenches’, such as Audrey and Phoebe from As...
Feature film. A Japanese version of King Lear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan. An old man, now a warlord, cedes his kingdom to his eldest son and starts a power struggle...
Radio series, presented by Jenni Murray, which aims to ‘celebrate, inform and entertain women’. In this edition Jenny Herman presents a 10-minute item on the best female supporting roles in Shakespeare....
Independent feature film offering a gay and lesbian Shakespeare film parody geared to a mainstream audience. Having just led the Scottish forces to victory, all Macbeth wants to do is go home, take a bubble...