Shakespeare Shorts | Sanity and Insanity – Playing Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Each programme in this series takes scenes from Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this programme they are Act 5, Scenes 1, 3 and 5. The sleepwalking scene and Macbeth's lament on the death of his wife are compared with other versions of these scenes.
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- Type: Factual, Plays
- Channel: BBC Two
- Duration: 19'32''
- Broadcast date: 1998
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Shakespeare Archive Resource
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The Lively Arts | Macbeth: Part 2
Performance of Verdi's great dramatic opera, sung in the original Italian. The text is by Piave, after Shakespeare. The BBC's first studio opera production in stereo will be broadcast simultaneously on Radio 3, and introduced by Robin Ray.
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The Lively Arts | Macbeth: Introduction
Performance of Verdi's great dramatic opera, sung in the original Italian. The text is by Piave, after Shakespeare. The BBC's first studio opera production in stereo will be broadcast simultaneously on Radio 3, and introduced by Robin Ray.