Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - A Midsummer Night's Dream
An animated adaptation of the play A midsummer night's dream, by William Shakespeare. Therein, a group of lovers have a series of comical adventures after several of them are enchanted by a magical elixir. The beauty of cel animation is that it can ...
Henrik Ibsen: the master playwright
This program, narrated by Ibsen biographer Michael Meyer, charts the development of Henrik Ibsen's style over four periods: his early years of failure; his epic dramas; his sociological plays, such as A Doll's House, Ghosts, and Rosmersholm; and his...
Comedy of errors
Roger Daltrey, lead singer of the rock band "The Who," described studying Shakespeare in school as "like having a tooth pulled." As star of Shakespeare's shortest play, he makes the viewer's experience far more pleasurable. In a perfect plot for the...