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  1. 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 3: Plague (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....

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  2. 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 4: Religion (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....

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  3. Uncertainties (2012 Television)

    Series
    King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History, The
    Director
    Steven Clarke
    Producer
    Steven Clarke

    Three-part documentary series. James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote at the beginning of James I’s reign, including King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens. There are scenes from...

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  4. Equivocation (2012 Television)

    Series
    King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History, The
    Director
    Steven Clarke
    Producer
    Steven Clarke

    Three-part documentary series. In episode 2 James Shapiro analyses Shakespeare’s work in the years following the 1605 gunpowder plot including Macbeth and Coriolanus - two plays written at a time of great...

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  5. Legacy (2012 Television)

    Series
    King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History, The
    Director
    Steven Clarke
    Producer
    Steven Clarke

    Three-part documentary series. In the final episode James Shapiro analyses The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest, plays which are often seen as swansongs. Professor Shapiro offers a different Shakespeare - a...

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  6. Shakespeare’s Restless World: City Life, Urban Strife (2012 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Restless World
    Producer
    Paul Kobrak

    Eight 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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  7. Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2012 Video)

    Director
    John Wyver
    Producer
    Max Whitby; Henry Volaris

    Released alongside an edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, the DVD features specially filmed performances of all 154 sonnets by a cast of actors which includes Fiona Shaw, Patrick Stewart,...

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  8. Shakespeare: The King’s Man (2012 Video)

    Director
    Steven Clarke
    Producer
    Steven Clarke

    American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth’s successor, King James I. One of the new king’s first official acts was to name Shakespeare a...

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  9. Front Row [26/03/2010] (2010 Radio)

    Series
    Front Row

    Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Lawson interviews James Shapiro, whose book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (2010) looks at the various conspiracy theories surrounding the...

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  10. Night Waves [05/04/2010] (2010 Radio)

    Series
    Night Waves

    BBC Radio 3 arts series. Presenter Matthew Sweet talks to Shakespeare scholars James Shapiro and Stanley Wells, asking to what extent Shakespeare’s plays can be taken as autobiographical confession,...

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