Sheldrake on Shakespeare

Sheldrake on Shakespeare

By James SheldrakePerforming Arts
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Sheldrake on Shakespeare episodes

  • Julius Caesar and the Soliloquy
    The soliloquy is one of Shakespeare’s most recognisable and distinctive theatrical devices. It is in no small part responsible for his fame as a dramatist of human psychology. Was Julius Caesar the gateway in Shakespeare’s soliloquising art between the 1590s and the 1600s? Sheldrake takes a close look at a few speeches from the play. […]
    19 min
  • Short SoS – Play Dates

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    How do we know when Shakespeare wrote each of his plays? Well, there are several methods of dating a play. Sheldrake rattles through them, taking in a couple of 1590s Michael Billingtons along the way.

    Also available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm

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  • Short SoS – Play Dates
    How do we know when Shakespeare wrote each of his plays? Well, there are several methods of dating a play. Sheldrake rattles through them, taking in a couple of 1590s Michael Billingtons along the way. Also available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm
    9 min
  • Sheldrake on Shakespeare Special – Read Not Dead at Shakespeare’s Globe

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    For many years, Globe Education has been staging performances with scripts of the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries in a series called Read Not Dead. They have worked their way through over 200 plays, but the opening of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse means they now have a permanent and splendid home. To decide which play should be the jewel in the crown of the current season, they held a husting featuring four plays backed by four teams. Sheldrake was there.

    Also available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm

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  • Short SoS – Rehearsal and Performance

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    Attempts to reconstruct the original performance circumstances of Renaissance plays, either literally or imaginatively, have been a constant companion to fascination about the literature. How did these plays actually get put together? What was the process? Would the actors recognise the concept of a rehearsal process? Sheldrake investigates.

    Also available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm

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  • Short SoS – The Drama of the Sonnets

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    Shakespeare’s Sonnets are things you nearly always read alone. But there is a rich seam of drama and conversation to be mined from them, as Sheldrake found recently when he saw them read aloud at the Royal Festival Hall.

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  • Short SoS – The Drama of the Sonnets
    Shakespeare’s Sonnets are things you nearly always read alone. But there is a rich seam of drama and conversation to be mined from them, as Sheldrake found recently when he saw them read aloud at the Royal Festival Hall. Subscribe on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm
    9 min
  • Short SoS – Shakespearean Theatres

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    Where did the magic happen? We’ve all heard of the Globe, but what did it mean for a play to be written for one playhouse rather than another? And what, for that matter, did it mean for Shakespeare to be attached to the Globe for most of his career? Sheldrake gallops through some answers.

    Subscribe on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ndhzfxm

    0 min
  • Short SoS – Shakespearean Theatres
    Where did the magic happen? We’ve all heard of the Globe, but what did it mean for a play to be written for one playhouse rather than another? And what, for that matter, did it mean for Shakespeare to be attached to the Globe for most of his career? Sheldrake gallops through some answers. Subscribe […]
    10 min