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20 results found for '"Literary adaptation"' in Keywords.

  • Rewriting Shakespeare (2022 Video)

    aka: Updating Shakespeare? Gender in She’s the Man and 10 Things I Hate About You

    Video from the Film Fatales YouTube channel hosted by Ellen, an English and Film Studies student. In this video she analyses the updated Shakespeare adaptations, She’s the Man (2006) from Twelfth Night and...

  • "Sing Thee to Thy Rest" (2022 Audio)

    aka: Episode 191

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul; Garland Scott

    Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn about their opera based on Hamlet.

  • John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment" (2022 Audio)

    aka: Episode 192

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

    Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to composer John Adams about his new two-act opera based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.

  • How Shakespeare Thought About the Mind (2022 Audio)

    aka: Episode 193

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

    Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Professor Helen Hackett (UCL) about her new book, The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty.

  • Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet (2022 Audio)

    aka: Episode 194

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

    Podcast. Sir Ian McKellen talks to Barbara Bogaev about Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Most recently he played the title role in Sean Mathias’ 2021 gender-, race-, and age-blind production at the Theatre Royal...

  • Ian McKellen on Richard III, Macbeth, And Gandalf (2022 Audio)

    aka: Episode 195

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

    Podcast. Second part of an episode in which Sir Ian McKellen talks to Barbara Bogaev about Shakespeare. Here he discusses playing Macbeth opposite Dame Judi Dench in 1979 (qv) and his 1995 film version of...

  • "It is a Copy out of Mine" (2017 Audio)

    aka: Adapting Shakespeare

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What exactly counts as a Shakespeare adaptation? And why bother in the first place? The podcast talks to three writers who have wrestled with these questions....

  • "I Feel Now the Future in the Instant" (2015 Audio)

    aka: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare adaptations are a proud tradition. Prokofiev turned Romeo and Juliet into a ballet. Verdi turned Macbeth and Othello into operas, and The Taming of...

  • Falstaff: The Bad Man we All Need (2010 Radio)

    Series
    Twenty Minutes
    Producer
    Julian May

    Radio programme. Paul Allen, who is writing a book about the character, reflects on the fascination of composers and writers with Falstaff. In this illustrated talk which covers composers such as Salierei,...

  • Shakespeare’s Secrets (2008 Radio)

    Series
    Front Row
    Producer
    Sally Spurring

    Special Shakespeare edition of the radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Examines why the life and works of William Shakespeare continue to inspire so many books, ranging from historical...