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- http://www.samuel-beckett.net/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature
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- Festivals, Information Sources, Reviews, Streaming/Download, Web Links
A visually incoherent site (a consequence of downloading text direct from other sites) which brings together an impressive amount of information from numerous sources documenting the life and work of the Irish playwright and novelist. The site lists online texts, literature festivals and events, reviews, articles, and other websites and blogs devoted to Beckett. There are audio and film and television sections which indicate when a recording or broadcast is available commercially on CD or DVD (a warning that these are not always up to date) The site also records material available in other countries and in other languages. A small number of titles are streamed.
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- http://bardfilm.blogspot.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Film Studies, Literature
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- Film/Video
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- Blogs, Discussion Lists, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Web Links
A blog, established in 2008, which comments on Shakespeare on film and television. Recent posts (7/2015) include Shakespeare used to sell pizza and an analysis of Paulo Pausini’s film IL CAPRICCIO All’ITALIANA inspired by Othello.
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- https://www.theshakespeareunderground.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The Shakespeare Underground is a podcast series that examines the works and life of William Shakespeare, and explores why there has been doubt about the authorship of the plays, sonnets, and other poems. Titles include The Law in Hamlet - attorney Tom Regnier argues that can the intricacies of Elizabethan Law shed new light on the tragedy, and The Comedy of Othello in which Oxfordian Richard Whalen argues that the play is influenced by Commedia dell’Arte. The site offers a blog and resources for investigating the authorship question.
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- http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Databases, Information Sources, Reviews, Streaming/Download
CASP is a research project devoted to the exploration and documentation of the ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted into a national, multicultural theatrical practice. Originally launched in 2004 by Professor Daniel Fischlin, CASP Version 2 was released in 2007 offering more than double the content, including learning, teaching, multimedia, and research resources and pedagogical tools related to how Shakespeare has been adapted into (and out of) Canadian theatre. The multimedia section streams audio and video content.
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- http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama
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- Databases, Information Sources, Reviews, Streaming/Download
The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world (with an emphasis on Asia) as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field. Links to online reviews are also provided for some plays. The archive is a work in progress and currently (2/2016) includes a catalogue of more than 400 streamed productions (some full length, others clips). This archive is intended to promote cross-cultural understanding and serve as a core resource for students, teachers, and researchers. The Database can be searched via play title, country of production and language.
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- https://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/Theatre-Archive-Project
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Design, Drama
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
The Theatre Archive Project is an ongoing project to reinvestigate British theatre history from 1945 to 1968, from the perspectives of both the theatregoer and the practitioner. The project is a collaboration between the British Library and the De Montfort University and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The project comprises a number of strands that support study of this period of British theatre history, as well as an opportunity to analyse and debate findings through a blog. The Oral History strand began in November 2003, and aims to interview as many people as possible who visited or worked in the theatre between 1945 and 1968. Transcripts are available for most recordings. Over 250 interviews have been added to the site, and interviewees include Frith Banbury, Michael Frayn, Trevor Griffiths, Glenda Jackson, Ann Jellicoe, Ian McDiarmid, Peter Nichols, Corin Redgrave, Arnold Wesker, Timothy West.
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- http://www.mckellen.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Radio Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Reviews, Streaming/Download
The website of actor Ian McKellen, one of the first actors in Britain to establish his own website and blog. The site is comprehensive and informative on his work on stage, screen and radio. Some radio performances are streamed, there are clips from some films and television programmes and links to Amazon where a film or television production is commercially available.
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- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Dance, Drama, Music
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. The collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theatre playbills and programmes, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. [Figures taken from site 5/2015]. Searches can be undertaken by subject, author and title. The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage collection include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaux. The films represented date from copyrights of 1897 to 1920; the majority are drawn from the Library’s extensive Paper Print Collection. The remaining films were produced by Hans A. Spanuth in Chicago from 1919 to 1920 for the series "Spanuth’s Original Vod-A-Vil Movies.
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- https://www.folger.edu/podcasts-and-recordings
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, History
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
Podcasts which aim to further the study of Shakespeare and the Renaissance. Includes the rapidly growing audio series SHAKESPEARE UNLIMITED where scholars talk on a range of topics including translating Shakespeare, Shakespeare and music and Shakespearean comedy. The Folger Audio Editions are studio recordings, produced by the Folger Theatre, from the complete, unabridged texts of the Folger Editions and performed by leading Shakespearean actors. The site also hosts podcasts from 2010 to date of Shakespeare’s Birthday Lectures where scholars again lecture on a wide range of topics.
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- https://www.youtube.com/user/ntdiscovertheatre
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Crafts, Dance, Design, Drama, Literature
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- Film/Video
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- Blogs, Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
A substantial library of videos on theatre and theatre making produced by the National Theatre, London. Topics include choreography and movement, armoury, music in theatre and set design. There are many interviews and conversations with actors and theatre practitioners who have been involved in NT productions including Judi Dench, Peter Hall, Alan Bennett and Simon Russell Beale. There are also talks on broad themes - Brechtian staging, Greek tragedy and the process of rehearsal.
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