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Shakespeare’s Globe (2005 Video)
A film reporting on behind-the-scenes activities at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London including educational work, preparations for a performance of Romeo and Juliet, and a history of the building.
Shakespeare’s Happy Endings (2005 Television)
- Director
- Stephen Leslie
- Producer
- Ben Evans
A comic account, part documentary, part staged performance, of some of the bowlderisations of Shakespeare’s plays in the history of the theatre. Presenter Patrick Barlow talks of a 1681 production of King...
All the World Still a Stage for Shakespeare’s Timeless Imagination (2005 Multimedia, Radio)
- Series
- Explorations
Radio broadcast. First of a two-part educational language learning programmes focusing on Shakespeare as the world’s greatest poet and playwright.
Shakespeare (2000 Television)
- Series
- Changing Stages
- Director
- Jamie Muir
- Producer
- Roger Parsons
Television documentary. The first episode in a six-part series in which director Richard Eyre gives his personal view on the history of the theatre in the twentieth century. Eyre considers the enduring...
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, The: 1946-1960 (1994 Multimedia)
- Series
- Theatre in Focus
Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the developments...
Shakespearean Stage Production (1993 Video)
- Producer
- Anne S. Wax
Shows the steps necessary to bring a play to the stage in Shakespeare’s time, from conception to presentation. Describes the members of the acting company and demonstrates the way productions were...
Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare (1993 Audio)
- Series
- Platform Recording
Audio recording. Discussion, recorded at the National Theatre, on the influence of Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare on modern productions of Shakespeare. Panellists are John Barton, Di Trevis and...
Builder’s Tale, The (1991 Video)
The story behind the preservation of the Rose Theatre, over which the Rose Court office development is built. It reveals the problems that were caused after the remains of the Shakespearean theatre were...
William Poel and the Elizabethan Stage Society (1987 Multimedia)
- Series
- Theatre in Focus
Slide set. Photographs of William Poel’s productions, especially those which he mounted for the Elizabethan Stage Society between 1893 and 1905. Also illustrations showing both how Poel’s work was...
Stratford’s Shakespeare (1985 Audio)
A history of performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, commissioned to celebrate the RSC’s 25th anniversary. Features reminiscences by famous actors who have played there: James Dale, who...