SHAKESPEARE

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A: Wrap Up, Or Elyse’s Lament (2023 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Anyone?

Podcast created, produced and hosted by American actors Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp, two self-confessed ‘Shakespeare nerds’ who devote multiple episode to analysing the Bard’s work. In this...

Midsummer Nights Dream, A (2022 Video)

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So You Haven’t Read

Animated educational short. A brief but fast-paced and witty guide to the plot and themes of Shakespeare’s comedy, aimed at younger learners.

Shakespeare’s Great Fairies: Myth and Magnanimity in Midsummer and Antony and Cleopatra (2022 Video)

Recording of an audiovisual presentation by Julia Reinhard Lupton (UCI English) prepared for the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. It explores the Hellenic influences linking Shakespeare’s...

London Dream, A (2022 Television)

Director

Richard Wilson (2)

Producer

Richard Wilson (2); Benjamin Ealovega

High-spirited film by Richard Wilson of a performance by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields of Mendelssohn’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream conducted by Ryan...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2022 Video)

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Bard Explored

Recording of a lecture by Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University) in which he explores Shakespeare’s popular comedy and present his theory - that Shakespeare, after several successes, decided to test himself...

Bottom’s Dream: Interpretation, Context and Directors of Shakespeare (2022 Video)

Recording of a lecture by director Kate Gaul at the Reginald Theatre at the Seymour Centre, Sydney on British and Australian productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, starting with Peter...

Not Too Tame Opening for Shakespeare North’s Midsummer (2022 Audio)

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British Theatre Guide Podcast

Podcast. David Chadderton speaks to Jimmy Fairhurst, who co-directed the new production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Not Too Tame company. The production ran at the Shakespeare...

Imagination: Midsummer Musings (2021 Video)

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How to Live Like Shakespeare: Colloquies on Renaissance Wisdom

First in a series of video lectures in which Julia Lupton and co-host Sean Keilen pick key passages from Shakespeare to discuss what they reveal about life and living. This edition focuses on Theseus’...

Dancing Shakespeare (2021 Video)

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Spotlight

Extracts from three Shakespeare ballets performed by the National Ballet of Canada. 1. Frederick Ashton’s The Dream, adapted from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to the music of Felix Mendelssohn. 2. Alexei...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Perspectives on the Plays

Recording of a live webinar, the first in a series examining Shakespeare and race from Shakespeare’s Globe. Professor Farah Karim-Cooper, Professor Aldo Billingslea and Dr Vanessa I. Corredera discuss...