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Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the theme of sleep. The programme includes an excerpt from Macbeth III ii ("Come Seeling Night") read by Adrian Rawlins and a Tanglewood Festival...
Documentary narrated by Mike Baker, Jr. Includes an account of Shakespeare’s life in Stratford and London and the new Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on Bankside (interviews with the Education Director,...
A concert for the 2000 Stratford-upon-Avon English Music Festival. The BBC Singers come to Holy Trinity Church in a programme of 19th-century music and settings of Shakespeare. Pieces are: Mendelssohn...
`Concise acting versions’ of ten plays read by Richard Burton, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Anna Massey, Sarah Churchill, Michael Redgrave, Peter Finch, Peter O’Toole and others. The...
Television documentary. Actors speak about about the challenge of performing Shakespeare. Their comments are illuminating - Ian McKellen believes his first thirty years of Shakespearean acting to have been...
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...
Sixteen lectures by Peter Saccio, Leon D. Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies at Dartmouth College, Princeton. The course titles are: ‘Shakespeare’s Wavelengths’;`The Multiple Actions of A...
Fiction short. William Shakespeare wakes up from a strange dream during which he came up with the phrase ‘to be or not to be’. However, on awakening he cannot remember the phrase and suffers from...
A history of performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, commissioned to celebrate the RSC’s 25th anniversary. Features reminiscences by famous actors who have played there: James Dale, who...
Television documentary aimed at getting young people engaged with Shakespeare’s language. Over the past year thousands of secondary schoolchildren took part in a competition to learn some of...
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