Shakespeare Research Guide: Video and Audio

Recorded live from London's Globe Theatre stage and provided via our subscription to Bloomsbury Drama Online.

Contains over 70 BBC productions of Shakespeare's plays offered via streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions.

Includes a uniquely extensive collection of theatrical videos from the Arab World, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom that offer fascinating glimpses of local performance traditions as well as insights into the cultural exchanges and new genres through which Shakespeare is becoming the major “global” author in the digital age. The project has brought together major scholars, artists and rights holders to create the largest and most diverse international collection of theatrical videos for Shakespeare study on the web.

The complete Arkangel Shakespeare contains fully dramatised unabridged recordings of all of Shakespeare’s 38 plays. Each play is recorded by noted actors, many of whom were trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company, such as Simon Russell Beale, Joseph Fiennes, David Tennant, Niamh Cusack and Sir John Gielgud and includes sound effects and music to bring the plays further to life. You may focus in on a particular scene, or listen to the whole play.