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Tag Archives: BBC
Reaping the harvest: growing food in Shakespeare’s England and our own
With the weather on the turn and autumn just around the corner, there’s just time to celebrate the joys of gardening and farming edible plants. This blog post, A Field Guide to Renaissance Gardens, offers some glorious images of sumptuous … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged BBC, farming, food, Getty Museum, harvest, Ruth Goodman
1 Comment
Shakespeare and The White Queen: using creative license
The current television series The White Queen has been criticised for its historical inaccuracies, its glossy costumes and out-of-period settings. I haven’t read the books by Philippa Gregory, so can’t tell how much of this relates to them and how … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World, Sources
Tagged BBC, Henry VI Part 3, Lesley Nickell, Philippa Gregory, Richard III, The White Queen
2 Comments
Shakespeare on film: Joss Whedon’s Much Ado
It is I suppose possible that you won’t have heard about the latest Shakespeare film to be released in the US that is due to be screened in the UK from 14 June 2013. Its director is Joss Whedon, best known for … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems
Tagged BBC, film, Henry V, John Wyver, Joss Whedon, Kenneth Branagh, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, television
3 Comments
Adapting Shakespeare’s Henry VI: The Wars of the Roses
Until a few years ago the Henry VI plays were rarely performed, especially outside Stratford-upon-Avon, so the news that next year Shakespeare’s Globe is going to be touring the plays to venues in the UK is to be welcomed. I’ve … Continue reading
David Tennant’s Hamlet and screening Shakespeare on TV
Tucked away on the BBC2 TV schedule at 11.20 on Tuesday evening is the last of the Shakespeare Uncovered series, David Tennant on Hamlet. Not only does it feature David Tennant, whose own Hamlet for the RSC in 2008 was … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged BBC, David Tennant, DVD, Hamlet, Illuminations, Jeremy Irons, National Theatre, recording, Richard Eyre, The Hollow Crown, The Space, video
9 Comments
Simon Schama and The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare and history
Among the must-see television shows for Shakespeare fans this summer has been Simon Schama’s Shakespeare. Love him or hate him, he’s the UK’s highest-profile historian. His style is individual, even eccentric, one minute generalising about the broad sweep of history, … Continue reading
Shakespeare, Italy and the theatre
With so much going on in the World Shakespeare Festival at the moment it’s hard to keep up. I spent last week away, with no TV or internet access and just catching programmes I missed is quite a job. One that … Continue reading
Shakespeare Unlocked with the BBC
In case it had escaped your notice, the World Shakespeare Festival’s about to kick off in theatres around the country. But even if you don’t intend to go anywhere near a theatre, the BBC is providing enough programmes in the … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, Shakespeare Unlocked, World Shakespeare Festival
5 Comments
Shakespeare: staging the world
This summer one of the most important events for anyone wanting to know more about why Shakespeare matters will be a visit to the British Museum’s exhibition Shakespeare: staging the world. Booking is already open for the exhibition, running from … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare's World
Tagged BBC, British Museum, Cultural Olympiad, Jonathan Bate, Lyte Jewel, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's restless world, Staging the World, World Shakespeare Festival
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Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus and Shakespeare on screen
Shakespeare-lovers are eagerly awaiting the release of the film of Coriolanus directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes. Fiennes may be better known to film audiences as Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, but theatre audiences know that his Shakespeare credentials are … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems
Tagged BBC, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, John Wyver, Ralph Fiennes, Screenplay, Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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