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Episode 6 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II,...
Episode 5 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II...
A live sound recording of Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet for the National Theatre Company with Peter O’Toole in the title role.
Television presentation of the Royal Shakespeare’s Company’s 1972 stage production directed for the theatre by Trevor Nunn. Shot almost entirely in close-up, and scaled down for the small screen, the...
Television production of the play, adapted by John Barton. A romantic conception, lavishly designed in the Regency period. Interpreted with clarity but with no great insights. Richard Chamberlain is Hamlet.
A reading of the play by the Marlowe Dramatic Society with Gary Watson as Henry.
Television documentary celebrating the work of Paul Scofield. Includes footage of Scofield on tour in Romania with the RSC production of King Lear directed by Peter Brook in 1964. Shots of the cast getting...
BBC screen adaptation by John Caird which compresses both parts of Henry IV into a three-hour television drama focusing on the father/son relationships in the plays.
This year will see a national celebration of the Bard’s work, as Hilary Bishop, Director of the RES Project for the BBC and Editor for BBC Archive Development explains. ‘Who will believe my verse in...
A Warwick University team has been awarded an AHRC grant for a project to put together the story of the contribution made to British Shakespeare by black and Asian theatre artists since 1930. Tony Howard is...
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