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  • Barton/Hall Wars of the Roses Adaptation (2015 Audio)

    Series
    Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (Kiss)

    Panel podcast. A recording of the panel on the John Barton and Peter Hall Wars of the Roses adaptation with Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Heather Neill, and Alex Waldmann. Frank Whately,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...