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"Though This Be Madness, Yet There Be Method In’t": Shakespeare and Insane Asylums (2014 Audio)
aka: Shakespeare and Insane Asylums
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir interviews Benjamin Reiss, a professor in the English department at Emory University and the author of Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and...
Shakespeare and Neuroscience (2010 Video)
- Series
- Tête-à-Tête
Professor Carol Rutter questions Professor Nick Dale from Warwick Medical School as to whether the state of mind and behaviour of Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scene are neurologically accurate.
Hamlet (2010 Multimedia, Video)
- Director
- Maria Federica Maestri; Francesco Pititto
Video recording of an experimental staging of Hamlet. There are three Hamlets in the production, sometimes taking turns, sometimes together on stage reflecting Hamlet’s schizophrenia. The arrangement...
Shakespeare on the Brain (2009 Video)
From the depression of Hamlet to the guilt of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s work has many references to mental health. Academics and actors at Warwick Arts Centre explore issues such as depression,...
Being Othello (2009 Film)
- Director
- Suri Krishnamma
- Producer
- Diane Shorthouse
Independent short. The story follows a schizophrenic patient (Andrew Mills), who takes on the character of Iago from Othello and tries to bring its story to life re-imagined for the present day through the...
Talking to My Shrink (1999 Radio)
- Series
- Her Infinite Variety
- Director
- Sarah Brown
Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 2: Confronted by the increasingly maddening (and mad) behaviour of her boyfriend, a nineties Ophelia discusses the nature of...
Shakespeare Workshop 1: The Tortured Mind (1982 Video)
aka: Tortured Mind, The
- Director
- Noel Hardy
- Producer
- Noel Hardy
An introduction to Shakespearean tragedy through an examination of key scenes from four of the plays. It shows how Shakespeare explores the minds - often under intolerable stress - of his characters, with...