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Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (Kiss)
Podcast with Graham Holderness, Alison Findlay and Michael Hattaway. Graham Holderness begins with discussing how Shakespeare’s first tetralogy becomes the trilogy of the Wars of the Roses and how this...
Age of Kings, An (2013 Video)
aka: Shakespeare’s an Age of Kings
- Series
- Age of Kings, An
- Director
- Michael Hayes
- Producer
- Peter Dews
5-disc DVD box set of the fifteen-part BBC series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies). The Illuminations release also features THE MAKING OF AN AGE...
This England (2012 Television)
- Series
- Simon Schama’s Shakespeare
- Director
- Ashley Gething
- Producer
- Charlotte Sacher
Two-part documentary in which Simon Schama argues that to understand Shakespeare we must understand how he was of his time. This episode concentrates on Henry IV and Henry VI and especially the character of...
Henry VI. Part 3 (2012 Video)
- Director
- John Blondell
Video recording of the National Theatre of Bitola’s staging of Henry VI. Part 3. The play is spoken in Macedonian and directed by John Blondell. Peter Gorko is King Henry. King Louis and Warwick are cast...
Shakespeare’s Restless World: Europe - Triumphs of the Past (2012 Radio)
- Series
- Shakespeare’s Restless World
- Producer
- Paul Kobrak
Sixth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...
Dreams of Avarice (2008 Television)
- Series
- Ascent of Money, The
- Director
- Adrian Pennink
- Producer
- Melanie Fall; Joanna Potts
Six-part documentary series on the history of global finance written and presented by Professor Niall Ferguson. In this first episode Ferguson speaks (c 10 mins) about the history of usary, referring to...
Michael Boyd (2008 Radio)
- Series
- Downstage Centre
Radio broadcast. Michael Boyd discusses the overwhelming success of his recent history play cycle in both Stratford and London, his vision for ensemble theatre making and the future of the Royal Shakespeare...
Shakespeare: The History Plays, Part 2 (2008 Audio, Multimedia)
In this sequel to her first interview, Heather Neill questions Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, about the various challenges of staging the RSC’s two-year Histories cycle...
Shakespeare’s Genealogies (2007 Video)
Webcast. Shakespeare was fascinated with family dynamics, often using them to fuel his plots with familial jealousy, lust, murder, mistaken identity and long-lost siblings. Many of his works share characters...
Shakespeare: The History Plays, Part 1 (2007 Audio, Multimedia)
Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speaks about the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays which he has directed. He also speaks of the advantages of the thrust stage and how...