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Catch My Soul (1970 Television)
- Series
- Aquarius
- Producer
- Derek Bailey
Arts documentary series. The programme reports on the British opening of the American pop musical based on Othello. With P.J. Proby and Jack Good.
Shylock’s End (1970 Radio)
- Series
- Fact and Fancy
- Producer
- Charles Lefeaux
Radio broadcast. A series of four inventions by H.F. Rubinstein based on well-known themes of literature or history. In this episode the author speculates on the life of Shakespeare’s characters some time...
Who was Lady Macbeth? (1970 Radio)
- Producer
- Christopher Holme
Historian Dr Ian Grimble draws on Irish, Scottish and English records for an account of the historical background to the Macbeth story.
Otello (1970 Radio)
aka: Othello
- Producer
- Anthony Besch
Radio broadcast of Rossini’s Otello. Nicola Tagger is Othello. The Radio Telefis Eireann Opera and Chorus is conducted by Albert Rosen.
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: An Introduction (1970 Film, Video)
- Series
- New Shakespeare
- Director
- Peter Seabourne
- Producer
- John Seabourne
Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...