Shakespearean comedies
3 episodes
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CultureEnglish Renaissance playsPlays adapted into operasBritish plays adapted into filmsPlays adapted into television showsPlays set in ancient GreecePlays adapted into radio programsPlays set in Athens1590s plays1600s playsMetafictional playsPlays about fairiesPlays about witches and witchcraftPlays set in Italy
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas behind Shakespeare's comedy with its intertwining plots of royal marriage, crossed lovers, quarreling fairies and rude mechanicals
18 April 2019
Featuring: Helen Hackett, Tom Healy, Alison Findlay
The Tempest
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Tempest, one of Shakespeare's last and richest plays.
14 November 2013
Featuring: Jonathan Bate, Erin Sullivan, Katherine Duncan-Jones
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
Featuring: Pascale Aebischer, Michael Dobson, Emma Smith