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Explores the countryside which inspired three of England’s greatest writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and William Shakespeare.
An adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel by Ken Taylor. In one scene (Chapter 34 in the book) Henry Crawford impresses Fanny Price by his ability to read aloud from Shakespeare. Henry reads from Henry VIII...
Television adaptation, heavily abridged, of Jane Austen’s novel. The scene in Chapter 34 in which Henry Crawford endeavours to recommend himself to Fanny Price by reading aloud from various characters in...
Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...
High school comedy loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma. In one brief scene the smart and nonchalent heroine, Cher (Silverstone), in an attempt to assert her sophistication and intellectual superiority...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In the decades after Shakespeare’s death, his works fell out of favour. His renaissance is usually credited to actor-manager David Garrick, who staged a...
'Will’ is 10-part drama series about the lost years of the young William Shakespeare. From his arrival in London as an unknown, the series chronicles his rise to become the greatest dramatist in England...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1995 production of Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Adrian Noble with Zubin Varia as Romeo and Lucy Whybrow as Juliet.
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