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"I Know My Physic Will Work with Him" (2016 Audio)
aka: Elizabethan Medicine
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. If you were ill in Shakespeare’s time you might be told to drink liquid gold or syrup of violets. You might undergo a violent purgation to take the bad...
Burke and Hare (2010 Film)
- Director
- John Landis
A largely fictionalised black comedy based on the activities of the eponymous grave robbers. In this version of events, one of the motivations for the criminal actions of William Burke (Simon Pegg) is his...
Shakespeare and Neuroscience (2010 Video)
- Series
- Tête-à-Tête
Professor Carol Rutter questions Professor Nick Dale from Warwick Medical School as to whether the state of mind and behaviour of Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scene are neurologically accurate.
Shakespeare on the Brain (2009 Video)
From the depression of Hamlet to the guilt of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s work has many references to mental health. Academics and actors at Warwick Arts Centre explore issues such as depression,...
Regimen of Health, A (1994 Television)
- Series
- Will’s World
- Director
- Deborah Wignall
Fourth in the series of programmes on life in Elizabethan England. Doctors Phil Hammond and Tony Gardner discuss remedies in Elizabethan England including the use of leeches.
Shakespeare & The Plague (Film)
- Director
- Philippa Kelly
- Producer
- Joseph Di Prisco
Short educational film. Introduced by Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), this mashup is performed by three actors who explore how Shakespeare reflected the plague in his work, focusing on Romeo and...