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Radio broadcast. Series in which Fiona Shaw tries to recreate the sounds of England during Shakespeare’s time. In the final episode Shaw considers what sounds the stage audiences would have heard in 1600.
Documentary series on archaeology. This episode looks at the east of Britain. Finds include the theatre where Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet and Henry V, complete with sound effect props and evidence...
The second programme in the series on life in Elizabethan England. David Stafford discusses fashion arguing that it was an extension of the class system where elaborate sumptuary laws defined what you could...
Recording of a live interactive event in which Lily Weitzman interviews filmmaker Andrew Giles Buckley about the making of his new documentary, Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck, which...
In the 17th century, London hosted a rich and vibrant theatre scene where the great works of Shakespeare thrived. However, we shall never know the true extent of the creative breadth and range during this...
6-part television discussion series in which academic Hugo Dyson talks about Shakespeare to four American graduates studying classical drama at the London Academy of Music and the Dramatic Arts (LAMDA)....
Slide set. Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the...
An acclaimed playwright, novelist, dissident and social activist; Ng g Wa Thiong’o is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He joins University of...
American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth’s successor, King James I. One of the new king’s first official acts was to name Shakespeare a...
Radio documentary on the history of the Derby Shakespeare Company, an amateur theatre company founded in 1908. Presenter Andy Potter traces the company’s links to Cornwall, explores the Alan Bates legacy,...
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