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Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...
Open University programme supporting A201 Renaissance and Reformation. Brian Stone sets out to help students with the satirical poetry written in England between Hall and Jonson. An understanding of it is...
Arts series. Writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr champions some Renaissance dramatists whose stories have been neglected because they worked at the same time as William Shakespeare. Marr believes our...
Cult CBC radio comedy sci-fi adventure serial. Johnny and Dante time travel to Elizabethan England to try and find out who wrote Shakespeare’s plays. They find themselves involved in an assassination...
Video recording of the performance of The Phoenix and the Turtle. Edited and staged by Deborah Shaw and introduced by Michael Wood.
Documentary recounting the life and times of Shakespeare. Embarrassing dramatised reconstructions of life in Elizabethan England are given some intellectual rigour in the interspersed observations by Dr...
Radio programme. Episode in a series devised by Sarah Dickinson in which she indulges her reporting fantasies. In this episode she talks to Shakespeare just after the first performance of Hamlet. Shakespeare...
Television production of Edward Bond’s stage play. Set in 1615 it shows an aged and weary Shakespeare in retirement in Stratford. He is disillusioned, pondering on life and fame and seeing nothing but...
Radio play written by Anton Gill. The age old question: who wrote Shakespeare becomes part police investigation that alternates between the sixteenth and the twentieth century.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1995 production of Edward Bond’s speculative and post-Brechtian biographical drama. Directed by David Thacker with Paul...
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