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20 results found for '"history of the 17th century"' in Keywords.
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...
Year of Lear, The (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. 1606 was a critical year for Shakespeare’s creative career. It was the year in which he wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. It was also a time...
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 1: The Theatre (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....
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 2: The Gunpowder Plot (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....
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...