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Judith Chaffee conducts a workshop with students on movement for period plays. Working with scenes from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and such dances as the pavanne from the early Renaissance and the...
A tape-slide presentation that introduces English theatre and traces the development of theatre design and acting styles. Comments on the influential playwrights and actors within each period.
Recording of an illustrated lecture by Geoffrey Marsh in which he explores the period in the 1590s when William Shakespeare lived near St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate and what influence that place and his...
Tape-slide. Shows the period of history which Shakespeare wrote about in his chronicle plays and his major source of material, what each play is about, and who the major characters are. Educational...
An account of Shakespeare’s life and work, highlighted by extracts from his poems and all his plays, featuring Judi Dench and Timothy West. With period music performed by Musica Antiqua of London.
Radio arts programme. John Pickford explores the intellectual and scientific thought that shaped Shakespeare’s period.
By showing Londoners of various occupations visiting the Globe theatre during Elizabethan times, the film reveals the social life of the age, which is then related to the writings of Sir Thomas More, Richard...
A series studying the history of theatre. This programme provides a background for the early Jacobean period, including costumes and buildings Scenes from Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well and John...
A history of swordplay tracing the evolution of civilian swords and fighting techniques from the street fights of the 16th century to the swordplay of the 18th century fencing schools, drawing on texts and...
In the 17th century, London hosted a rich and vibrant theatre scene where the great works of Shakespeare thrived. However, we shall never know the true extent of the creative breadth and range during this...
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