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Voltaire and Tragedy (1987 Multimedia)
- Series
- Theatre in Focus
Slide set. Voltaire was the dominant figure in French dramatic production in the 18th century, and his influence as a tragedian spread throughout Europe. The slide set surveys his contribution to the...
William Poel and the Elizabethan Stage Society (1987 Multimedia)
- Series
- Theatre in Focus
Slide set. Photographs of William Poel’s productions, especially those which he mounted for the Elizabethan Stage Society between 1893 and 1905. Also illustrations showing both how Poel’s work was...
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, The: 1919-1945 (1984 Multimedia)
- Series
- Theatre in Focus
Slide set. Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the...
Theatre of Roger Planchon, The (1984 Multimedia)
- Series
- Theatre in Focus
An account of the life and achievement of one of France’s foremost contemporary directors. Shows the establishing of his company in Villeurbanne in 1950, the particular quality of the repertory he has...
Shakespeare and His Theatre (1977 Multimedia, Video)
- Director
- Alan Afriat
- Producer
- Alan Afriat
Two programmes made in Stratford-on-Avon and London looking at Shakespeare’s life and the environment in which he wrote his plays. C. Walter Hodges talks about Elizabethan theatre, Professor John Russell...
Shakespeare is Dug by the Craziest of Cats (1967 Multimedia, Radio)
Extract from a CBC radio broadcast. Duke Ellington had just completed his Shakespearean jazz suite Such Sweet Thunder which was commissioned by the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. The suite...
Trumpets of Summer, The (1964 Multimedia, Radio)
- Director
- George Little
The premiere of a a choral suite for mixed chorus, four soloists, male speaker and six instruments commissioned by CBC for the quatercentenary, celebrating the history of Shakespeare within Canadian culture....
Rinse the Blood off My Toga (Multimedia, Video)
- Series
- Wayne and Shuster Show, The
A shortened version of Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster’s skit on Julius Caesar first broadcast on radio in 1955 and re-worked and first performed on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Wayne plays Roman...
Danespotting (Multimedia)
Danespotting opened as a fringe stage production at the Montreal Festival 1997. In an interview MacFadzean explained ‘It’s a sort of Hamlet meets TRAINSPOTTING, remaining true to Shakespeare but with a...
Shakespeare Social Networks: Animated Shakespeare (Multimedia)
A site which employs PieSpy, software designed to allow users to infer and visualise social networks on Internet Relay Chat (IRC). It works by feeding PieSpy with the full texts of all Shakespeare plays,...