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  • Episode 4 (2023 Radio)

    Series
    Taking Issue with Shakespeare
    Producer
    Beaty Rubens

    A five-part radio series in which Professor Emma Smith, University of Oxford, talks to major public figures about the role that Shakespeare might play in dealing with contemporary issues. With contributions...

  • Ophelia (2019 Film)

    Director
    Claire McCarthy
    Producer
    Daniel Bobker; Sarah Curtis; Paul Hanson; Ehren Kruger

    Based on Lisa Klein’s novel of the same name, Daisy Ridley takes the title role in a re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet through the eyes of the ill-fated heroine, Ophelia.

  • Richard II (2018 Audio)

    Series
    Lend Me Your Ears

    This six-episode podcast miniseries looks at the political currents that influenced Shakespeare and how they apply to the world today. Hosted by Isaac Butler. Richard II is God’s anointed representative...

  • King Lear (2018 Audio)

    Series
    Lend Me Your Ears

    This six-episode podcast miniseries looks at the political currents that influenced Shakespeare and how they apply to the world today. Hosted by Isaac Butler. If a nation can be thought of as a family,...

  • Shakespeare Film Series Returns the Old Globe (2017)

    Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of The Old Globe, discusses the theatre’s film series featuring the work of four filmmakers: Julie Taymor, Peter Brook, Al Pacino and Baz Luhrmann.

  • Cymbeline (2017 Audio)

    Series
    Approaching Shakespeare

    King Cymberline goes to war in protest over Roman demands for England to pay a tribute. Having won the war and captured his enemies, Cymberliine decides to pay the tribute despite his victory. In this...

  • Shakespeare and Power (2016 Radio)

    aka: Power of Royalty, The

    Series
    Words and Music

    Radio broadcast. Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith are the readers in a sequence of texts and music inspired by one of Shakespeare’s favourite themes: the power of royalty and monarchy as a metaphor...

  • 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....

  • Hamlet and the Sovereignty of Reason (2015 Audio)

    Series
    Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (Kiss)

    Podcast. Professor Jeffrey Knapp discusses how understanding the world and its reasons is linked to subjective sovereignty but also how the sovereign is dependent on their subjects or being subject to...

  • Laertes’ Revolt and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty (2015 Audio)

    Series
    Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (Kiss)

    Podcast. Howard Caygill’s explores the impact of popular sovereignty in Hamlet as it seems a necessary component to Shakespeare’s play. Claudius’ sovereignty is ambiguous not only because of Hamlet...