ENGL 312, Shakespeare

Royal Shakespeare Company production. Captured live in Stratford-upon-Avon, this adaptation evokes imperialism at its most grandiose, creating a vivid spectacle from the conspirators’ extreme act of violence.

Gregory Doran relocates Shakespeare’s tale of power and corruption to post-independence Africa. Featuring an entirely Black British cast, this screen adaption based on the Royal Shakespeare Company production acquires timely urgency in its modern setting.

BBC Studios. Cast: Richard Pasco, Charles Gray, Keith Michell, Virginia McKenna, David Collings, Sam Dastor, and more.

MGM Film. Cast: Features John Gielgud, James Mason, Marlon Brando, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern and Edmond O'Brien. Directed by Joseph Mankiewicz

Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen.

This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which includes an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Renaissance England, and in relation to Shakespeare's other Roman plays as well as structural examination of plot, language, character, and source material. Julius Caesar: Critical Essays also examines the current debates concerning the play in Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, queer, and gender contexts.

Audio version. Digital Theatre+ in association with LA Theatre Works.

Context of the play, about the playwright, plot summaries, characters, themes and more.

Shakespeare’s rarely told story of an epic journey and dramatic reunion is given a new lease of life in this production from Stratford Festival, in which a tempest both gives love and takes it away.
Filmed live at the festival in 2016, Evan Buliung takes on the eponymous role, transforming and evolving before our eyes, while Deborah Hay plays both wife and daughter.

BBC Studios.
Cast: Mike Gwilym, John Woodvine, Robert Ashby, Valerie Lush, Patrick Allen, Amanda Redman.

Shakespeare's last seven extant plays are discussed in detail in dedicated chapters, from Pericles to the other late co-authored works, King Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The plays are situated in the context of Shakespeare's financial investments, his focus on the practice of reading, the changing nature of his acting company and the pressing issues of contemporary politics and urban life. The book also goes on to explore the relationship between Shakespeare and his audience and considers the dominant themes in his final works. Analysing and responding to the latest criticism in the field, this volume brings to light a vital re-examination of what it means to discuss'late Shakespeare'.

Set of 2 CD's.
Cast: Sir John Gielgud (Gower), Nigel Terry (Pericles), Stella Gonet (Thaisa), Julie Cox (Marina), Siobhan Redmond (Dionyza), and more.

Royal Shakespeare Company. Captured live in Stratford-upon-Avon, this adaptation was created in collaboration with Intel and in association with The Imaginarium Studios, and featured the very first live motion capture performance in a major classical stage production.

BBC Studios. Cast: Michael Hordern, Warren Clarke, Sir Nigel Hawthorne, David Dixon, Andrew Sachs, Alan Rowe, Pippa Guard, and more.

This critical edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest contains the play and 21 additional selections representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work providing you with more insight into the play's critical issues and cultural debates about literature itself.