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Shostakovich on Trial: From Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony (2022 Video)
Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...
Our Shakespeare Reading Club: Dickinson Reading Antony and Cleopatra and Othello (2021 Video)
Video recording of a live seminar held online over Zoom starting with a half hour presentation by Páraic Finnerty (University of Portsmouth) on American poet Emily Dickinson’s engagement with...
Freedom of Speech or ‘Nothing’: King Lear and Contemporary India (2016 Radio)
- Series
- Essay: Shakespeare 400, The
- Producer
- Beaty Rubens
Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. The fourth programme is delivered by Preti Taneja. Fitzpatrick, post-doctoral research fellow in Global Shakespeare at Queen Mary, University of London,...
Hands off the Classics (1978 Television)
- Series
- Lively Arts, The
- Producer
- Dennis Marks; Alan Yentob
Anthology arts series. In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was censored and in the 18th century Tate gave King Lear a happy ending. The programme debates the line between interpretation and vandalism.
Merchant of Venice, The (1914 Film)
- Director
- Phillips Smalley; Lois Weber
Fiction film. A version of The Merchant of Venice directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber. Reviewed by Hanford C. Judson in Moving Picture World (February 14) with the heading ‘Full of Dignity...
Macbeth (1908 Film)
- Director
- William V. Ranous
Fiction film of Macbeth containing at least 17 sequences with the focus on the first half of the play. Shot largely in the studio, the film was not well received by the trade papers and its censorship by...