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"There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth, Than Are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy." (2016 Audio)
aka: Shakespeare and Religion
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The period when Shakespeare was writing was one torn by disagreements over the proper method of observing Christianity in England. Protestantism was at war with...
"I Know My Physic Will Work with Him" (2016 Audio)
aka: Elizabethan Medicine
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. If you were ill in Shakespeare’s time you might be told to drink liquid gold or syrup of violets. You might undergo a violent purgation to take the bad...
"Why, Here’s a Girl!" (2016 Audio)
aka: Shakespeare and Girlhood
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Institute Library. How does Shakespeare portray girls and girlhood in his plays, and what do those portrayals tell us about life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England? Deanne Williams...
Everyday Death in Shakespeare’s England (2016 Video)
- Series
- The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)
Video podcast. This podcast by Steven Gunn talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare’s day. Coroners’ inquest reports into accidental deaths tell us about the hazards...
Elizabethan Childhood (2015 Television)
- Series
- My Story
- Director
- Jaqui McAlpine
- Producer
- Jaqui McAlpine
Pre-school history series. Grandad Harvey takes Asher on a journey of discovery to find out what life was like for a child during Elizabethan times. Dressing up in magnificent Elizabethan costumes, they...
Elizabethan Street Fighting (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. From the duels in Romeo and Juliet to a brutal mob in Julius Caesar, street fighting transforms several of Shakespeare’s plays. How much, though, does it...
Did Shakespeare Know Queen Elizabeth I? (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Let’s Talk Shakespeare
A ten-part podcast series, presented by Jennifer Reid, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, exploring some of the most frequently asked questions about Shakespeare’s life. This episode invites Professor...
I.am. Will Shakespeare (2014 Television)
Schools programme for Key Stage 2. NEWSROUND’s Ricky Boleto and Leah Gooding find out about Shakespeare’s early life in Stratford-upon-Avon, visit Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London and see how his...
"Not Single Spies,/ But in Battalions: Codes and Ciphers from the Renaissance to Today (2014 Audio)
aka: Codes and Ciphers from the Renaissance to Today
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A comment occuring late in this podcast : "Without Bacon and Shakespeare, we might not have won the war in the Pacific," states Bill Sherman, head of research at...
This England (2012 Television)
- Series
- Simon Schama’s Shakespeare
- Director
- Ashley Gething
- Producer
- 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...