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  • "Enter Prospero in His Magic Robes, And Ariel" (2016 Audio)

    aka: Shakespeare and Magic

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In The Tempest, the magician Prospero conjures up a storm, charms his daughter to sleep, and uses his power to control Ariel and other spirits. Is this magic...

  • Shakespeare’s Restless World: New Science, Old Magic (2012 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Restless World
    Producer
    Paul Kobrak

    Ninth 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 audiences...

  • Tempest, The (2009 Television)

    Series
    South Bank Show, The
    Producer
    Paul Tickell

    Anthology arts series. Examines why The Tempest, still holds such fascination for modern audiences. Melvyn Bragg investigates the events surrounding the writing of the play, including contemporary interest...

  • Capturing Macbeth (2008 Film)

    Director
    Leo Eaton

    Documentary that goes behind the scenes during the final performances of a stage production of Macbeth, produced for the Folger Theater in Washington DC by Teller (the magician from Penn & Teller) and Aaron...

  • Magic (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Words and Music
    Producer
    Elizabeth Arno

    Radio programme. Themed on the subject of magic in its many shades, this episode’s ‘Word and Music’ starts with Shakespeare, the theme of the year’s Proms season. Miriam Margoyles and Nicholas...

  • Rough Magyck (2006 Video)

    Video recording of Forkbeard Fantasy’s Rough Magyck. Part outdoor, part indoor, Rough Magyck goes in search of the of the supernatural in Shakespeare mixing mechanical sets, film and cartoon, outlandish...

  • Rough Magic and Sweet Lullaby (2000 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Lectures
    Producer
    Zahid Warley

    BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 5 writer and cultural historian Marina Warner considers Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural and...

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream / Richard II / Twelfth Night (2000 Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare: Text and Performance, Course Aa306

    Four programmes relating to course AA306: Band 1) Staging Dreams: explores how magic can be represented in the modern theatre. Features extracts from several productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Band...

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream: What to Make of Magic, A (1998 Video)

    Series
    Staging Dreams: Casting and Interpreting Shakespeare

    Educational videotape. What do fairies look like? How can magic be staged meaningfully in modern theatre? The programme presents scenes from several filmed versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that show...

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1994 Radio)

    Series
    Play of the Week (BBC World Service)
    Director
    Hilary Norrish

    Two-part production of Shakespeare’s play, with a Caribbean cast, set in Trinidad during carnival time. Aiming to enliven Shakespeare’s play by a different cultural context, director Hilary Norrish...