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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...
Macbeth (1970 Audio)
- Series
- Shakespeare Audiotapes
- Producer
- Kenneth Muir
R. A. Foakes, University of Kent, and Kenneth Muir, University of Liverpool, discuss the play. Side 2 comprises readings from the play.
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...
Measure for Measure (1970 Audio)
- Series
- Shakespeare Audiotapes
- Director
- John Russell Brown
Gareth Lloyd Evans, Univesity of Birmingham, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. If this is a ‘problem play’, how do we define the ‘problem’? The speakers lay...
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...
Merchant of Venice, The (1970 Audio)
- Series
- Shakespeare Audiotapes
- Director
- Peter James
W. Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. The character and dramatic presentation of Shylock form part of a wider discussion of...
Tempest, The (1970 Audio)
- Series
- Shakespeare Audiotapes
- Director
- John Russell Brown
David Daiches, University of Sussex, and L C Knights, University of Cambridge, discuss several interpretations of the play. Against this background of critical disagreement they consider central characters,...