Latest on: Shakespeare
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‘Year of Shakespeare’ interactive website launched
Published: 11 May 2012yearofshakespeare.com is an interactive, digital project created by the Shakespeare Institute, the University of Warwick, and The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to document and discuss the performances and ideas emerging from the World Shakespeare Festival. The website features reviews of each of the World Shakespeare Festival productions special features from academics, artists, and educators involved in …
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British Council films online
Published: 3 May 2012Who We Were The British Council Film Collection Unveiled http://film.britishcouncil.org/ This evening at BFI Southbank a new collection of British Council films is being launched with an evening of reminiscence, debate and entertainment hosted by BBC Radio 4’s Francine Stock. To book, visit the BFI website: During the 1940s, the British Council was an enthusiastic …
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The Tempest for iPad
Published: 17 April 2012Much more than a digital book, the The Tempest for iPad by Luminary Digital Media is designed for social reading, authoring, and sharing. Developed at the Center for Research Computing at the University of Notre Dame, its aim is to allow readers – be they students, scholars or enthusiasts – to dynamically experience Shakespeare’s play. …
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Shakespeare on BBC radio – April/May 2012
Published: 13 April 2012As part of the BBC’s contribution to the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival, the radio networks have just announced the schedule for their Shakespeare Season. Highlights include new drama productions of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet starring David Tennant as well as The Tempest with David Warner as Prospero. Starting Monday 16 April, …
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Recent Gateway updates
Published: 28 March 2012The Bioscope This indispensable resource is devoted to the world of early and silent cinema and is one of the busiest and most successful available on the web. Mixing scholarship, news and conference reports as well as reviews, it provides a wealth of information about the silent era worldwide. The site, along with almost daily …
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First Shakespeare CD with original pronunciation
Published: 16 March 2012The British Library has just released a new audio CD, Shakespeare’s original pronunciation, featuring speeches and scenes performed as Shakespeare would have heard them. Although there have been a handful of attempts to perform Shakespeare in the original pronunciation on stage, this is the first time that recordings have been made available worldwide for study …
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The way to search BUFVC collections is changing
Published: 15 March 2012You can now search 9 of the BUFVC’s collections straight from the BUFVC homepage (beta version). View almost 14 million film, television and radio records, dating from 1896 onwards, via a single search box. The new simple way to search will open up the stand-alone collections allowing you to discover new content and unexplored collections. …
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ECLAP 2012 Conference
Published: 13 March 2012On 7 – 9 May 2012, the first international ECLAP conference on ‘Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment’ will take place in Florence, Italy. ECLAP – the e-library for performing arts – is a best practice network that brings together Europe’s most relevant performing arts content from a diverse range of institutions. …
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Shakespeare inspires London 2012 Olympics
Published: 14 February 2012Caliban’s words from Shakespeare’s The Tempest have provided artistic director Danny Boyle with the inspiration for the Olympics opening awards ceremony theme: ‘Isles of Wonder’. For details about Shakespeare on film, telvision, radio and multimedia, visit the BUFVC Shakspeare International database at http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/
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Shakespeare Is …
Published: 6 February 2012Shakespeare Is, a new documentary project for radio, television, education and on-demand media, will be broadcasting a six-part public radio series on Shakespeare in 2013. The series is being produced by two-time Peabody Award winner, Steve Rowland, (The Miles Davis Radio Project and Leonard Bernstein: An American Life) in conjunction with consulting producer David Chambers …
