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The first of two programmes on King Lear supporting the A306 Shakespeare course. Considers how an actor can convey Lear’s madness and at the same time be aware of the ‘reason in madness’ so central to...
Continuing from KING LEAR: WORKSHOP 1, this programme looks in great detail at Act IV vi - the storm scene - and at Lear’s re-encounter with the blind Gloucester. Director John Russell-Brown and Julian...
Professor Frank Kermode, Professor of English at Columbia University, New York City, examines one of Shakespeare’s most prominent concerns - the connection between morality and power - with reference to...
Professor Sandy Cunningham talks about the variety and complexity of the ideas of love and wit as they figure in Twelfth Night. Produced in support of the OU A361 Shakespeare course.
Dr Harriet Hawkins argues that it is not the resolution of moral dilemmas which is most important in Measure for Measure, but the open questions about sex, morality, psychology and society which are posed...
Professor Glynne Wickham looks at the latest proposals to reconstruct Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre near its original site in Southwark, examining the historical evidence for the construction of theatres in...
The workshop examines one of the many short, crowded scenes of the play, in which Antony takes his leave of Cleopatra before going into battle with Caesar. Director John Russell-Brown works with James...
Cicely Palser Havely talks to Glenda Jackson, who describes her approach to playing Cleopatra in Peter Brook’s 1979 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Antony and Cleopatra. Produced for the A361...
A workshop investigating Hamlet’s character. Director John Russell Brown and actor David Yelland work through the various interpretations of the soliloquiess, and examines how they are related to other...
An abridged version of the play transmitted as part of the A307 Drama course with Corin Redgrave as Macbeth.
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