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Shakespeare Globe's Hamlet returns from it's world tour
The cast reminisce over some of the unusual forms of transport they used on their travels.
  1. Shakespeare Globe's Hamlet returns from it's world tour
    01:19
    Shakespeare Globe's Hamlet returns from it's world tour
  2. New Dreams exhibitions
    04:30
    New Dreams exhibitions
    View More From Dream On! - University of Glasgow
  3. Three Love Songs - extract
    03:07
    Three Love Songs - extract
    View More From Dream On! - University of Glasgow
  4. Map-Makers of the Collective Unconscious - extract
    01:46
    Map-Makers of the Collective Unconscious - extract
    View More From Dream On! - University of Glasgow
  5. Drag Up - extract
    01:32
    Drag Up - extract
    View More From Dream On! - University of Glasgow
  6. Ewen Cummins and Peter de Jersey
    00:06
    Ewen Cummins and Peter de Jersey
  7. Much Ado About Nothing starring Maggie Smith (1967)
    05:22
    Much Ado About Nothing starring Maggie Smith (1967)
  8. Sound of Cinema - Romeo and Juliet
    07:44
    Sound of Cinema - Romeo and Juliet
  9. Talking About Shakespeare: Toni Morrison
    02:00
    Talking About Shakespeare: Toni Morrison
  10. Puck signs off - from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre stage
    00:59
    Puck signs off - from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre stage
  11. Radio 4's Preface to Shakespeare with Derek Jacobi (1980)
    20:51
    Radio 4's Preface to Shakespeare with Derek Jacobi (1980)
  12. King Lear - watch the trailer
    00:29
    King Lear - watch the trailer

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  13. Shakespeare and Tennis - Henry V
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    Shakespeare and Tennis - Henry V
  14. Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: Hamlet
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    Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: Hamlet
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  • Ballet, Opera and the Bard - Royal Opera House
  • Being Hamlet
  • Breakfast with The Bard - Shakespeare's New Place
  • Brunch with the Bard
  • Garrick's Shakespeare Ode & A Shakespeare Masque - Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Go, Make You Ready
  • Hamlet Returns - Shakespeare's Globe
  • Hay Festival
  • King Lear
  • New Shakespeare Songbook
  • Richard II
  • Richard III - Ian McKellen at the BFI
  • Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere
  • Shakespeare Round the World
  • Shakespeare Sex-List Song by Michael Nyman
  • Silent Shakespeare - from Shakespeare Day Live
  • Sound of Cinema - King Edward VI School, Stratford upon Avon
  • The BFI presents Silent Shakespeare
  • The BFI presents the magic behind Derek Jarman's The Tempest
  • The BFI presents Welcome to Shakespeare Land!
  • The Complete Walk - Shakespeare's Globe
  • The Late Plays - Shakespeare's Globe
  • The Works
  • Tomorrow
  • Cymraeg
  • Gàidhlig
  • Gaeilge

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