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55 results found for '"politics"' in Keywords.
How Shakespeare Inspired Freedom Movements (2016 Video)
- Series
- Shakespeare Lives in Education
Short video series in which Shakespeare academics and students talk to camera about an aspect of Shakespeare’s work. The aim is to persuade foreign students to study Shakespeare in Britain. Ewan Fernie is...
How Shakespeare’s Musical Writing Survives Translation (2016 Video)
- Series
- Shakespeare Lives in Education
Short video series in which Shakespeare academics and students talk to camera about an aspect of Shakespeare’s work. The aim is to persuade foreign students to study Shakespeare in Britain. Sonia Massai,...
Shakespeare and the American Dream. Part 2 (2016 Radio)
aka: Shakespeare in Obama’s America
- Series
- Compass: Shakespeare in the World
- Producer
- Maggie Ayre
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Washington he discovers that his plays are used to discuss ideas of power and politics. He meets Stephen Sondheim...
Is Shakespeare Always Political? (2016 Audio)
Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. The panellists discuss the political themes within Shakespeare’s plays and consider how he voiced the political...
Shakespeare’s Restless World: Life Without Elizabeth (2012 Radio)
- Series
- Shakespeare’s Restless World
- Producer
- Paul Kobrak
Fourth 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...
Shakespeare’s Restless World: Treason and Plots (2012 Radio)
- Series
- Shakespeare’s Restless World
- Producer
- Paul Kobrak
Eleventh 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...
Shakespeare’s Restless World: The Flag That Failed (2012 Radio)
- Series
- Shakespeare’s Restless World
- Producer
- Paul Kobrak
Fifteenth 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...
Hollow Crowns (2012 Television)
- Series
- Simon Schama’s Shakespeare
- Director
- Ashley Gething
- Producer
- Charlotte Sacher
Documentary. Simon Schama concludes his two-part documentary looking at Shakespeare’s attitudes towards kingship. The programmes focuses on Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Henry V and Richard II. Includes...
Ophelia (2011 Film)
- Director
- Greta Mendez
- Producer
- Greta Mendez; Mat de Koning
Independent fiction short. "T’o have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" (Hamlet Act 3 Sc i). The painting of Ophelia by John Everett Millais, is used as a metaphor for Kashmir, a country caught...
Speaker’s Progress, The (2011 Video)
- Director
- Sulayman al-Bassam
Video recording of the play by Suleyman Al-Bassam. . In a totalitarian state somewhere in the Arab World, all forms of theatre have been banned, but a condemned 1960’s classic play has become the focal...