Latest on: Shakespeare

• CFP: Theatre Plays on British TV

  Published: 17 January 2012

  The first conference arising from the AHRC-funded research project Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television will be held at the University of Westminster on Friday 19 October 2012. Screen Plays is concerned with all plays written for the theatre that have been produced for British television since 1930. The project documents and develops new …

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• Viewfinder online December updates

  Published: 19 December 2011

  The latest Viewfinder news, reviews and articles have now been posted online at bufvc.ac.uk/viewfinder. These include A roundup of some of the latest film and media books published this month An interview with writer-director Barnaby Edwards about his educational audio company Textbook Stuff An analysis by Professor James Chapman of the making and reception of …

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• Earliest Shakespeare sound recording recovered

  Published: 16 December 2011

  ‘To be or not to be …’ as recited in the early 1880s crackled to life on computer speakers at the Library of Congress on Tuesday, 13 December. The early audio recordings on Volta discs – which revealed recitations of Shakespeare, numbers and other familiar lines – had been packed away and deemed obsolete at …

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• Digital Theatre releases Tennant & Tate in ‘Much Ado’

  Published: 14 December 2011

  Digital Theatre, the company that delivers filmed drama from the London stage via streaming and download, is now offering the chance to watch an exclusive video presentation of a performance of the sold out 2011 production of Shakespeare’s evergreen comedy Much Ado About Nothing starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate as Benedict and Beatrice. We …

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• Illuminations to film RSC’s ‘Julius Caesar’ in 2012

  Published: 12 December 2011

  Illuminations, the arts production company responsible for the acclaimed filmed stage productions of Macbeth (2010) with Patrick Stewart and RSC’s Hamlet with David Tennant (2009), has just announced their next Shakespeare venture: Julius Caesar, as directed by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran for the World Shakespeare Festival in 2012. The play, …

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• Was Shakespeare A Fraud?

  Published: 25 October 2011

  The political thriller ANONYMOUS directed by Roland Emmerich opens at the cinemas this week. The film asks `was Shakespeare a fraud?’. It is already causing a stir amongst the academics in Stratford-upon-Avon where the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is mounting a stern protest in taping over nine road signs for the day to coincide with the …

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• Shakespeare roundup

  Published: 25 October 2011

  Roland Emmerich’s controversial new film Anonymous is released in UK cinemas this Friday (28 October)  and it explores some of the theories that question whether Shakespeare did, or did not, in fact author the plays that we now ascribe to him. The film’s official website includes an amusing quiz to determine one’s level of knowledge …

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• Academic Podcasts – Backdoor Broadcasting Company

  Published: 7 October 2011

  The Backdoor Broadcasting Company is a mobile audio webcasting service which specialises in web-casting academic lectures in order to further the dissemination of research. Topics covered are as diverse as childhood and violence, debates on critical theory with the likes of Slavoj Žižek, ‘The Future of Biosecurity’, and the Shakespeare Institute’s think-tank session on the …

  Categories: General News, Moving Images Gateway, Shakespeare

• The Key to More Access, 2 December 2011

  Published: 26 September 2011

  Friday 2 December 2011 (10.30am onwards), The Geological Society, Piccadilly, London A BUFVC forum to discuss how current BUFVC projects will result in improved and integrated access to moving image and sound content. The morning forum will look at how the BUFVC constantly, and consistently, strives to not just increase the amount of content available, …

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• New BBC radio production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

  Published: 9 September 2011

  A new radio production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be broadcast as part of BBC’s ‘Drama on 3′ series on BBC Radio 3 this Sunday, 11 September 2011, at 8 pm. The production was recorded on location in 22 acres of Sussex woodland this summer with an all star cast including the likes …

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