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Culture English Renaissance plays Plays adapted into operas British plays adapted into films Fiction about suicide Plays adapted into television shows Shakespearean tragedies Fiction about regicide Plays adapted into radio programs Shakespearean comedies Fiction about poisonings Metafictional plays

Hamlet

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiration for Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play's context and meaning, and why it has fascinated audiences from its first performance.

28 December 2017

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Featuring: Jonathan Bate, Carol Rutter, Sonia Massai

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Culture English Renaissance plays Plays adapted into operas British plays adapted into films Fiction about suicide Plays adapted into television shows Shakespearean tragedies Fiction about regicide Plays adapted into radio programs 1600s plays Fiction about poisonings Metafictional plays
Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great comedies of world literature in which love and desire in Illyria sit uneasily alongside thwarted dreams and compromise.

28 December 2023

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Featuring: Pascale Aebischer, Michael Dobson, Emma Smith

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Culture English Renaissance plays British plays adapted into films Shakespearean comedies 1600s plays