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23 results found for '"Shakespeare Audiotapes"' in Series.

  • Twelfth Night (1972 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes
    Director
    John Russell Brown

    Professor E A J Honigman, University of Newcastle, and John Dixon Hunt, University of York, explore the atmosphere of the play and its qualities of sadness and ‘dark’ comedy. Its mood of romantic dream...

  • Antony and Cleopatra (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes
    Director
    John Russell Brown

    R.A. Foakes, University of Kent, and A.R. Humphreys, University of Leicester, argue that the themes of love and power, with their underlying tensions and instabilities, are central to the play, and that the...

  • As You Like It (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes
    Director
    Peter Thomson

    The play is placed in the context of comedy as an art form. Its structure is analysed as a progression from strife to communal happiness and from a set of opposites to reconcilation and harmony. Key...

  • Background to ‘Hamlet’ (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes

    W Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s Univesity College Wales discuss Hamlet. They relate it to its time and review external evidence that can help in understanding the...

  • Coriolanus (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes

    A. R. Humphreys, University of Leicester, and Anthony Nuttall, University of Sussex, discuss the character of Coriolanus and the play’s concept of nobility. Side 2 comprises readings by Robert Hardy,...

  • Cymbeline (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes
    Director
    Peter James

    Stanley Wells, editor of the ‘Oxford Shakespeare’, and John Wilders, Worcester College Oxford, discuss the difficulties of the play. Sice 2 comprises readings by actors Gemma Jones, Ian Taylor and Gary...

  • Hamlet (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes
    Director
    John Russell Brown

    David Daiches, University of Sussex, and L C Knights, University of Cambridge, discuss the play. Hamlet, more than any other play, has produced many and divergent interpretations. The speakers consider the...

  • Henry IV. Part 1 (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes
    Director
    Peter Thomson

    Peter Hollindale, University of York, and Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham ask whether this play enacts ‘the education of a prince’. Prince Hal is considered in relation to Falstaff and...

  • Henry IV. Part 2 (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes
    Director
    Peter Thomson

    Peter Hollindale, University of York, and Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham, discuss the play. They consider Shakespeare’s dramatisation of historical process and of the psychology of a diverse...

  • Heroic Villains, The (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes

    G. H, Hunter and Martin Wright, University of Warwick, discuss the problems of heroic villainy in Macbeth, Richard III and The Jew of Malta.