Lunatic, The Lover and the Poet, The (2000 Audio, Multimedia, Radio)

Director

Barbara Worthy

A recording of Brian Bedford’s one-man show exploring the emotion and psychology behind Shakespeare the man, as well as Shakespeare the playwright. The show was conceived as an actor’s celebration of...

Shakespeare’s Work (2000 Multimedia, Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Ariane Koek

Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, director Michael Bogdanov, and Professor Germaine Greer discuss the work of Shakespeare. Does Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare...

10 Things I Hate About You (1999 Film, Multimedia, Video)

aka: Ten Things I Hate About You

Director

Gil Junger

Producer

Andrew Lazar

What would happen if you made a boring old set text into a high-school romcom?. Junger’s adaptation, set in a suburban Seattle high school is ‘smart and sassy, a brightly contemporary retelling of The...

Titus Andronicus (1999 Film, Multimedia)

Director

Christopher Dunne

Independent low-budget feature film. Ridiculed by some, criticised by all, this cult horror movie places Shakespeare’s play in ancient Rome. The product description reads "this is the saga of a noble man...

Leaving Drew (1999 Film, Multimedia)

Director

Kirsten Lara Getchell

Producer

Steven Eckholdt; Kirsten Lara Getchell

Fiction short. Campbell, a struggling actor, is appearing in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival at Drew University. When the production closes he goes back...

Tide: Times Square Shakespeare (1999 Multimedia)

Director

Kyle Cooper

An advertisement for Tide detergent shown on a billboard in Times Square, New York City. It offers a parody of Macbeth’s ‘is this a dagger I see before me’ speech. The advertising agency is Saatchi &...

Tragedy (1999 Multimedia, Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Charlie Taylor

Radio programme. Together with guests Professor George Steiner and Professor Catherine Belsey, presenter Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the genre of tragedy and examines whether we (still) have a...

Shakespeare and Literary Criticism (1999 Multimedia, Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Olivia Seligman

Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and literary critics Harold Bloom and Jacqueline Rose discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare and Bloom’s claim that personality, as we understand it...

Hamlet (1998 Multimedia)

Series

BBC Shakespeare on Cd-Rom

CD-ROM with the complete Alexander text of the play, a complete audio version, photographs from performances, and extracts from the BBC Shakespeare production. Coverage includes characters, plot,...

Julius Caesar (1998 Multimedia)

Series

BBC Shakespeare on Cd-Rom

Contains the complete Alexander text of the play, an the complete audio version, photographs from performances, and extracts from the BBC Shakespeare production. Coverage includes characters, plot,...