SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet (2021 Television)

Series

Cbeebies Presents

Director

Geoff Coward; Juliet Firster

Producer

Anna Perowne

Rebecca the Librarian and William Shakespeare present this musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s play set in a magical library, aimed at younger viewers. Recorded at the Leeds Playhouse and directed for...

Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet, With Claire Danes (2021 Video)

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This special episode, a preview for the US premiere of Godwin’s new TV adaptation of Romeo and Juliet (qv), features special guest Claire Danes,...

Dancing Shakespeare (2021 Video)

Series

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...

Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing & Romeo and Juliet (2021 Audio, Multimedia)

Series

Book Isn’t Necessarily Better, The: A Library Podcast

Podcast hosted by Mikayla and Roxanne. In this edition they focus in particular on Kenneth Branagh’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993) and Baz Luhrmann’s WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET (1996).

Romeo and Juliet (2021 Video)

Director

Sam White

Recording of a student production of Romeo and Juliet by the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance. It is set in 2020 Verona during the Coronavirus pandemic, with the chorus (performed...

Romeo & Juliet Source Material (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 24

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode hosts Ian Doescher and Sara Plasskett look at the sources that Shakespeare used when writing Romeo and Juliet, including an Italian novella by Matteo Bandello, a poem by Arthur...

Romeo & Juliet (2021 Video)

Series

Behind Closed Doors

Director

Michelle Terry

The second in a series of videos made by Shakespeare’s Globe that looks at the process of putting their productions in the 2021 Summer season on the stage in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic and...

Romeo & Juliet (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Perspectives on the Plays

Recording of a live webinar, the second in a series examining Shakespeare and race from Shakespeare’s Globe. Hanh Bui, Kathy Hsieh and Dr Varsha Panjwani discuss Romeo and Juliet from ab Asian cultural...

Mary Bly on Lizzie & Dante and Romeo & Juliet (2021 Audio)

Series

Women and Shakespeare

Podcast. In this edition, Dr Varsha Panjwani interviews Professor Mary Bly about her new novel, Lizzie & Dante, a reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespearean Support Group (2021 Radio)

Director

Francesca Hsieh

Audio drama by Kimi Handa Brown. This post-modern play imagines what happened next to assorted characters from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The...