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Actor John Nettles and writer Kathy Lette discuss whether Shylock is a blood-thirsty money lender or a victim of racial prejudice. John Nettles argues that Shylock’s need for revenge is understandable when...
Comedy sketch series. Includes a sketch in which Benny Hill is a programme planner on the telephone to an up-and-coming writer William Shakespeare. No further details known [10/2007].
Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to Will Wilhelm about their new show, Gender Play, or what you Will, which began from the premise that Shakespeare’s plays are fundamentally queer. Will, as a non-binary...
Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...
Radio programme in which Asian American writer Zulfikar Ghose talks about producing Shakespeare in Bombay, his production of Hamlet, and actor/producer Shasi Kapoor’s plans to start the first Indian...
Storytelling. Kevin Eldon reads What Do You Say?, a twisted tale about a man driven to insanity by a repetitive stranger. In Fakespeare, written by Toby Davies and narrated by Rebecca Front, a writer of...
Best-selling writer, Bernard Cornwell discusses his new book "Fools and Mortals". In the novel, Corwell imagines the very first production of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream".
The second track on a collection of variety sketches by Viennese cabaret artist, writer, actor, director Karl Farkas (1893-1971) focuses on the fate of great works of art, such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The...
Andrew Dickson, art editor of the ‘Guardian’ website,and Peter Kirwan, writer of the Bardathon theatre review blog, talk about how blogs have changed the art of reviewing Shakespeare productions.
A new production of Kuwaiti-British writer Sulayman Al-Bassam’s reimagining of Hamlet, transplanted from Denmark to a modern Arab state in trouble.
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