SHAKESPEARE

Lady Macbeth (2023 Radio)

Series

Free Thinking

Producer

Ruth Watts

Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler, New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday and composer Michelle Assay have looked at the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Chris...

Shakespeare in a Divided America (2023 Video)

Series

Providence College Humanities Forum

Recording of a lecture by Professor James Shapiro (Columbia University) entitled ‘Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and Macbeth.' in which he samines the importance of Shakespeare in the life...

Episode 4 (2023 Radio)

Series

Taking Issue with Shakespeare

Producer

Beaty Rubens

A five-part radio series in which Professor Emma Smith, University of Oxford, talks to major public figures about the role that Shakespeare might play in dealing with contemporary issues. With contributions...

Shakespeare on Screen (2023 Video)

YouTube video by Jeff Palermo in which he discusses the film and TV adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays that he thinks worked most successfully. He references a number of celebrated adaptations including...

William Shakespeare Prepares a Throne of Blood for Romeo Who Must die (2022 Audio)

Series

Double Edged Double Bill

Podcast. The double bill considered in this edition by hosts Adam and Thomas is Andrzej Bartkowiak’s reworking of Romeo and Juliet as an action movie, ROMEO MUST DIE (2000), and Akira Kurosawa’s Macbeth...

Tragedy of Macbeth, The (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 102

Series

Telly Visions: The Podcast

Podcast hosted by Lacy Baugher Milas and Ani Bundel. In this edition they explore their reactions after viewing Joel Coens’ film, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021), focusing on its use of violence, the cutting...

Shostakovich on Trial: From Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony (2022 Video)

Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...

Tragedy of Macbeth, The; Top 10 Shakespeare Adaptations (2022 Audio, Video)

aka: Episode 514

Series

Cinereelists Podcast

Movie podcast. In this edition Zach, James and Kyle discuss Joel Coen’s film of Shakespeare Macbeth in the first hour and and then for the second hour consider their favourite films adapted from the...

If It Were Done (2022 Film)

Director

Will Poole

Producer

Carey Thring

A short film with a contemporary setting based on scenes 1 and 7 from Act 1 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The meeting with the three wishes takes place in a garage while the scene in which the Macbeth’s plan...