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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. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, director Michael Bogdanov, and Professor Germaine Greer discuss the work of Shakespeare. Does Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare...
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...
Video podcast. Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. Ben Jonson wrote in 1623 that Shakespeare ‘art a Moniment, without a tombe/ And art alive still,...
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.
Drama by Paula and Edward Fitzgerald. Anti-Stratfordian play set in the Globe during a rehearsal for Hamlet and in Francis Bacon’s study. Details for this entry are taken from World Shakespeare...
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...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the moon as a symbol of purity, as a capricious, changeable being, as an object to reach in the imagination and through scientific...
Children’s entertainment and educational series. This episode looks at the life and times of Shakespeare - from his largely unknown and humble beginnings in Stratford, through his times as a jobbing actor...
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