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Focuses on media- and cultural-specific representations of Caliban's ugliness in English and Polish film and television productions of Tempest.
As part of a series "designed to explore those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally," considers Victor Hugo's essay, "William Shakespeare" and his son's translations of Shakespeare's work.
As part of a series "designed to explore those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally," considers Boris Pasternak's Russian translations of Shakespeare.
As part of a series "designed to explore those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally," considers Bertolt Brecht's engagement with Shakespeare as a dramaturg, director, and adapter, with a focus on Brecht's Round Heads and Pointy Heads (an adaptation of Measure for Measure) and Coriolan.
As part of a series "designed to explore those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally," considers the politics and poetics of Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête(q.v.).
As part of a series "designed to explore those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally," considers William Poel's acting career in light of his involvement with the New Shakspere Society, the Shakespeare Reading Society, the Elizabethan Stage Society, and the London Shakespeare League.
As part of a series "designed to explore those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally," surveys Harley Granville Barker's career in theatre as an actor, director, and critic.
As part of a series "designed to explore those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally," surveys Tyrone Guthrie's career as director, producer, and general manager. Discusses his production of Hamlet, co-directed with Michael Benthall (1944), Henry VIII (1949), and All's Well that Ends Well (1959).
Discusses meanings of "hobby-horse" and the ways in which these meanings overlap, arguing that this overlapping "exemplifies the interaction of different productions of early modern popular culture," which "attests to a complex circulation of cultural memory regarding symbols of popular culture, paradoxically both 'forgotten' and 'remembered' as basically oral-ritual culture was transformed into written forms." Considers the new overtones this analysis lends Hamlet, 3.1.133, and how "different versions of the playtext . . . also offer insights into the changing attitudes regarding popular culture, as it became gradually commercialised and politicised in the following decades." English summary, 119.
As part of a series "designed to explore those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally," showcases Sam Wanamaker's major contribution to Shakespeare scholarship and staging by envisioning and building the new Globe. Discusses Wanamaker's portrayal of Iago opposite Paul Robeson (1959) and portrayal of Macbeth at the Goodman Memorial Theater and School of Drama in 1964.