SHAKESPEARE

Verdi’s Falstaff (2023 Radio)

Series

Opera on 3

Director

Robert Carsen

Verdi’s Shakespearean comedy, loosely adapted from The Merry Wives of Windsor, from the New York Metropolitan Opera conducted by Daniele Rustioni, with Michael Volle as the roguish Knight Falstaff....

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...

John Caius (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 213

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Vivian Nutton about the real John Caius, the 16th century doctor, and the...

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (2022 Video)

Director

Elle While; Ian Russell

Stage recording of Elle While’s 2019 production of Shakespeare’s comedy starring Bryony Hannah as Mistress Ford and Pearce Quigley as Falstaff. The setting is a generic 1930s. Directed for the screen by...

Merry Wives of Windsor in Ze Nude [Part 2] (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Drunk Shakespeare

Director

Elizabeth Crocker

Recording of a Zoom presentation of Shakespeare’s play in the style of a 1960s nudist film. Directed by Elizabeth Crocker. The Cast: Mistress Ford: Caryn Fulda Ford: Henry Graham Murray their servants:...

City Comedies (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 34

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli look at The Merry Wives of Windsor as an example of the then popular city comedy genre.

Falstaff: Hero or Villain? (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 43

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode examines the character of Sir John Falstaff. Participants include: Edward Gero, Rosa Joshi and Dr. Jeffrey R. Wilson.

Shakespeare’s Last Act (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 44

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode, the last in the series, looks at Shakespeare’s late plays, the ones Coleridge dubbed ‘romances’ including Cymbeline, The...

Reopening Night (2021 Television)

Director

Rudy Valdez

Producer

Meghan Schale

Documentary charting the development of Merry Wives, the Black-led 2021 Shakespeare in the Park adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor set in a community of West African immigrants in South Harlem. The...