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8 results found for '"Ireland"' in Keywords.

  • 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....

  • Greymalkin and Other Shakespearean Celts (2013 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture

    Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Andrew Hadfield. Graymalkinis not only a witch’s familiar, argues Hadfield. She may also be...

  • Shakespeare’s Restless World: Ireland - Failure in the Present (2012 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Restless World
    Producer
    Paul Kobrak

    Seventh 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...

  • Shakespeare’s Vortigern and Rowena (2010 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Marc Beeby
    Producer
    Marc Beeby

    Radio play written by Melissa Murray and directed for broadcasting by Marc Beeby. In 1796, Richard Sheridan (Lorcan Cranitch), playwright and owner of the Drury Lane theatre stages a ‘lost’ Shakespeare...

  • Shakespeare (2005 Radio)

    Series
    Faking the Classics
    Producer
    Sara Jane Hall

    Two-part radio series in which Jonathan Bate examines how the works of Shakespeare and Mozart have been forged. Part 1 discusses Shakespeare. Since Shakespeare’s death his works have been given alleged...

  • Another Shakespeare (2000 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Cherry Cookson

    Radio drama by Martyn Wade. Based on a true story, William Ireland was an unhappy child, born in the 18th century, who wanted to impress his brutal father. He wrote, and then claimed to have discovered,...

  • Ireland Forgeries, The (1947 Radio)

    Producer
    William Hughes

    Radio play by Kenneth Bird about the story of William Ireland, whose Shakespeare forgeries caused a considerable stir in literary circles at the end of the 18th century.

  • William Ireland’s Confession (1939 Radio)

    Series
    Columbia Workshop
    Director
    Stephen Potter

    Radio drama by Arthur Miller about the Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland. Ireland’s ghost narrates the story.