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Nowhere fired Shakespeare’s Imagination quite like Italy. But as Francesco Da Mosto argues in this new two part series, Italian cities meant far more to our greatest author than just a sunlit setting....
Italian architect, author, historian and filmmaker, Francesco da Mosto presents this two-part documentary about the use of Italy as a backdrop for many of the works by William Shakespeare. Interviewees...
Recording of a lecture by Professor John Gardyne (Trinity College London) held in front of staff and students at the Istituto Copernico Pasolini in Verona, Italy. Delivered as part of an online sumposium on...
One of a series of seven films produced by the National Geographic Society in association with the television station WQED, Pittsburgh. Discusses the influence of Italy on Elizabethan writers. Scenes from...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What did Shakespeare and his audiencesreally know about distant places and people? In this episode Rebecca Sheir poses that question about France and...
Documentary by Alicia Maksimova that explores the theory that Shakespeare was in fact the linguist John Florio, the son of Italian emigree Michelangelo Florio. She travels from Stratford-upon-Avon to...
Franco Ferrara conducts the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy in Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Fernando Previtali conducts the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet.
Italian crime film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
A production, for Italian television, of Vittorio Gassman’s stage production of Hamlet with Gassman in the title role. Directed for television by Claudio Fino.
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