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Shakespeare’s Heroes (2017 Video)
- Series
- Classic Shakespeare
Video of the second lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate discusses how Shakespeare’s conception of the hero was shaped by...
Burgess & Shakespeare (2016 Audio)
- Series
- The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast
Audio podcast. This edition, written and presented by Graham Foster, examines author and critic Anthony Burgess’s relationship with Shakespeare and his works. This includes Burgess’ biography of the Bard...
Nothing Like the Sun Revisited (2016 Audio)
- Series
- The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast
Audio podcast. In this edition, Andrew Biswell and Rob Spence discuss Anthony Burgess’s novel about Shakespeare, Nothing Like the Sun. They discusse the innovative use of language and Burgess’s lifelong...
"I Feel Now the Future in the Instant" (2015 Audio)
aka: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare adaptations are a proud tradition. Prokofiev turned Romeo and Juliet into a ballet. Verdi turned Macbeth and Othello into operas, and The Taming of...
Fakespeare (2013 Television)
- Series
- Crackanory
- Director
- Richie Pengelley
Storytelling. Kevin Eldon reads What Do You Say?, a twisted tale about a man driven to insanity by a repetitive stranger. In Fakespeare, written by Toby Davies and narrated by Rebecca Front, a writer of...
Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2012 Video)
- Director
- John Wyver
- Producer
- Max Whitby; Henry Volaris
Released alongside an edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, the DVD features specially filmed performances of all 154 sonnets by a cast of actors which includes Fiona Shaw, Patrick Stewart,...
Voices of History 2: Art, Science and Exploration (2012 Audio)
A 2-CD set features historic recordings of celebrated people in the arts, drama, the sciences, sport and exploration. Shakespeare-related items include Ellen Terry as Ophelia and Sir Henry Irving as Richard...
Hollow Crown, The (2012 Video)
4-disc DVD containing the four plays transmitted as part of the BBC’s THE HOLLOW CROWN series - Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 and Henry V. See the individual entries for full cast, broadcast and...
Arthur Phillips Takes on the Bard (2011 Multimedia, Radio)
In this radio interview, presenter Kurt Andersen talks to novelist Arthur Phillips about his book The Tragedy of Arthur, in which the novelist fakes an entire Shakespeare play.
Stealing Shakespeare (2010 Television)
- Director
- Christian Hills
- Producer
- Christian Hills
Television documentary. In 2010 Raymond Scott was convicted of handling (but not stealing) a First Folio edition stolen from Durham University in 1998. The programme relates the story behind the theft and...