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An introduction to Shakespeare and his times, focusing on the audience and actors in Shakespearean theatre and illustrating the historical context of the plays. Looks at what it was like to be in the...
The theatre cast of the original stage production of the play directed by Tyron Guthrie at the Old Vic Theatre, London, re-enacted selected scenes for this televised broadcast. Presentation by Royston Morley.
Theatre in Poland. Includes an excerpt from Wroclaw Mime Theatre’s Hamlet.
The radio talk focuses on Shakespeare and the amateur stage and is given by W. Nugent Monk, who was at the time owner-producer-manager of the Maddermarket Theatre, a theatre with an amateur company, in Norwich.
A visit to the National Theatre, London to see performers prepare for the Company’s 2009 production of All’s Well That Ends Well directed by Marianne Elliott.
Tape-slide. Shows the Globe’s early history, the names, location, shape, and uses of the stage areas, how the structure of the theatre directly affected Shakespeare’s plays, and the differences between...
Slide set. A history from primitive mime and dance through to Victorian developments. Includes a section on Shakespeare and the Globe.
An excerpt showing scenes from the Old Vic Theatre Company production of Cymbeline with an introduction by British theatre actress Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976).
BBC schools broadcast imagining a visit to the ‘new’ theatre in Elizabethan London.
Architecture series presented by Dr Peter Curran. This episode looks at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on London’s South Bank.
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