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YouTube video by Jeff Palermo in which he discusses the film and TV adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays that he thinks worked most successfully. He references a number of celebrated adaptations including...
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Dame Janet Suzman looks back on her role as Joan of Arc in the BBC’s 1965 adaptations of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses. Under the direction of John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare...
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- The Shakespeare 2020 Project
Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. PhD candidate Hailey Bachrach discusses the complexity of the characters and the fact that this may have been the play that established Shakespeare’s fame.
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- Show Must Go Online, The
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- Robert Myles
The fifth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform, it...
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Video essay by Audrey Loomis, a Senior from University of Texas at Austin, as part of her thesis on gendered Shakespeare adaptation. Along with several interviews with theatre artists, it also features...
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Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss fact and fiction in Shakespeare’s historical plays Henry VI (parts 1, 2 and 3) and Richard III, exploring how they vary from historical fact and...
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aka: Shakespeare and Marlowe: Attributing ‘Henry VI’ Authorship
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- Shakespeare Unlimited
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- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2016 Oxford University Press caused some controversy deciding that, in the New Oxford Shakespeare, the plays Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 would no longer be...
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- Robin Midgley; John Barton; Peter Hall
The RSC’s landmark production of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy and Richard III. Adapted and directed for the stage by Peter Hall and John Barton, The Wars of the Roses was acknowledged on its premiere...
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aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 1
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- Shakespeare Repuplic
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- Sally McLean
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- Sally McLean; Billy Smedley
Stephen Costan plays Margaret. Having defeated the rebel, York, he reflects on sweet victory.
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- Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (Kiss)
Podcast with Graham Holderness, Alison Findlay and Michael Hattaway. Graham Holderness begins with discussing how Shakespeare’s first tetralogy becomes the trilogy of the Wars of the Roses and how this...
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- Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (Kiss)
Panel podcast. A recording of the panel on the John Barton and Peter Hall Wars of the Roses adaptation with Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Heather Neill, and Alex Waldmann. Frank Whately,...
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aka: Shakespeare’s an Age of Kings
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- Age of Kings, An
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- Michael Hayes
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- Peter Dews
5-disc DVD box set of the fifteen-part BBC series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies). The Illuminations release also features THE MAKING OF AN AGE...
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- Shakespeare’s Restless World
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- Paul Kobrak
Sixth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...
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- John Blondell
Video recording of the National Theatre of Bitola’s staging of Henry VI. Part 3. The play is spoken in Macedonian and directed by John Blondell. Peter Gorko is King Henry. King Louis and Warwick are cast...
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- Simon Schama’s Shakespeare
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- Ashley Gething
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- Charlotte Sacher
Two-part documentary in which Simon Schama argues that to understand Shakespeare we must understand how he was of his time. This episode concentrates on Henry IV and Henry VI and especially the character of...
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In this sequel to her first interview, Heather Neill questions Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, about the various challenges of staging the RSC’s two-year Histories cycle...
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- Downstage Centre
Radio broadcast. Michael Boyd discusses the overwhelming success of his recent history play cycle in both Stratford and London, his vision for ensemble theatre making and the future of the Royal Shakespeare...
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- Ascent of Money, The
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- Adrian Pennink
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- Melanie Fall; Joanna Potts
Six-part documentary series on the history of global finance written and presented by Professor Niall Ferguson. In this first episode Ferguson speaks (c 10 mins) about the history of usary, referring to...
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Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speaks about the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays which he has directed. He also speaks of the advantages of the thrust stage and how...
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Webcast. Shakespeare was fascinated with family dynamics, often using them to fuel his plots with familial jealousy, lust, murder, mistaken identity and long-lost siblings. Many of his works share characters...
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aka: Hörspiel-Archiv auf 40 Cds, Das
The 40 CD box set consists of a collection of 28 radio adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays (including a recording of Sir Thomas More) produced and broadcast on German and Austrian public radio service...
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A video recording of the production of Henry VI. Part 3 directed by Michael Boyd with Chuk Iwuji as Henry VI.
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- BBC Television Shakespeare
37-disc boxed set containing all productions from the BBC Television Shakespeare series from 1978 to 1985.
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aka: Henry VI
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- Peter Palitzsch
A production, for German television, of Peter Palitzsch’s 1969 production at the Württembergische Staatstheater, Stuttgart. No further details known (9/2007).
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- West Wing, The
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- Alex Graves
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- Aaron Sorkin
American television series about the inner workings of the federal government starring Martin Sheen as President Jed Bartlet. In this episode President Bartlet issues an illegal order to assassinate a...
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- Leon Rubin
Video recording of Leon Rubin’s 2002 production of Henry VI Parts II & III for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Michael Therriault is Henry.
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- This England: The Histories
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- Michael Boyd
A video recording, using two camera (upstage and downstage), of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2000 production of Henry VI, Part 3. Directed by Michael Boyd with David Oyelowo as King Henry.
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aka: Henry VI Parts 2 and 3
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- Ruediger Burbach
A video recording, using a single camera, of Ruedinger Burbach’s 1999 production of Henry VI Parts 2 and 3. Henry VI is played by Katharina Schmoelzer.
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- Arkangel Complete Shakespeare
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- Clive Brill
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- Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with David...
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Michael Kahn’s distillation of the Henry VI trilogy for the Shakespeare Theatre Company with Philip Goodwin as Henry. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.
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A video recording of the Theatre for a New Audience production of the Henry VI trilogy directed by Barry Kyle. The three parts are conflated into two and were performed in repertory. Videotaped for Theatre...
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A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s small-scale touring production of Henry VI. Part 3. Directed by Katie Mitchell with Jonathan Firth as Henry VI.
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- Wars of the Roses, The
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- Michael Bogdanov
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- Jean-Paul Chapple
A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, recorded for at the Grand Theatre, Swansea before a live audience. The seven plays in the ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle were performed over seven...
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- Wars of the Roses, The
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- Michael Bogdanov
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- Jean-Paul Chapple
A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, recorded at the Grand Theatre, Swansea before a live audience. The seven plays in the ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle were performed over seven...
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- Plantagenets, The
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- Adrian Noble
An adaptation into three parts of all three parts of Henry VI, and Richard III. The plays were performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the titles Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. They were...
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- Plantagenets, The
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- Adrian Noble
An adaptation into three parts of all three parts of Henry VI, and Richard III. The plays were performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the titles Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. They were...
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- Murder, She Wrote
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- John Llewellyn Moxey
Murder mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer-cum amateur detective. Jessica Fletcher. In this episode Jessica rushes to London in an attempt to aid her cousin, a famous actress in...
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aka: Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses I and II
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- Rolf Schneider
Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s major tetralogy directed and adapted for broadcasting by Rolf Schneider. 200 years of English history are told by the figure of the Shakespearean fool (Fritz Lichtenhahn),...
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- Shakespeare in Perspective
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- Barbara Derkow
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- Victor Poole
A personal view of the play presented by Michael Wood. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by stressing...
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- BBC Television Shakespeare
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- Jane Howell
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- Jonathan Miller
Television production directed by Jane Howell who was also responsible for the entire tetralogy (the three parts of Henry VI plus King Richard III). Peter Benson is King Henry.
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- Prefaces to Shakespeare
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- Gordon Hutchings
A personal introduction to the Henry VI plays by actor Brewster Mason, who played Warwick in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1963 ‘War of the Roses’ trilogy.
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- Pam Brighton
Video recording of Pam Brighton’s conflation of the Henry VI tetralogy for the 1980 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Stephen Russell is King Henry.
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- Dave Rogers (2)
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- Dave Rogers (2)
Award show which includes extracts from Alan Howard in Coriolanus and Henry VI to illustrate his nominations for Best Actor. Howard won the Best Actor award for his title role in Coriolanus directed by Terry...
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- South Bank Show, The
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- Tony Cash; Andrew Snell
Television arts documentary. In 1976 and 1977 Alan Howard played three major roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s repertory - Coriolanus, Henry V and Henry VI (in parts 1, II and III). The programme...
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- Terry Hands
Live sound recording of Terry Hands’ 1977 production of Henry VI. Part 3 for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Alan Howard as Henry.
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- Vivat Rex
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- Martin Jenkins (2)
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- Martin Jenkins (2)
Episode 19 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Henry VI,...
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- Vivat Rex
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- Martin Jenkins (2)
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- Martin Jenkins (2)
Episode 20 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s 3 Henry...
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- Shakespeare and the Histories
Second of a 5-part series of scholarly talks on Shakespeare’s history plays. Emrys Jones looks at the new dramatic genre of the Shakespearean secular history play within the theatrical fashion of its time.
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- Vivat Rex
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- Gerry Jones
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- Gerry Jones
Episode 21 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI...
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- Raymond Raikes
The Henry VI trilogy abridged and produced by Raymond Raikes and broadcast in two parts. Part 2. Nigel Lambert is King Henry. Ian McKellen plays both Richard, Duke of York and his son, Richard, Duke of...
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