A Midsummer Night's Dream
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays that cross the racial divide. This edition focuses on love in the human and fairy worlds in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays which cross the racial divide. In this edition, she focuses on love in the human and fairy worlds in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
No one has ever captured the joy and lunacy and power of love better than William Shakespeare. And his transgressive depictions of love in particular remain unsurpassed. Othello, Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Anthony and Cleopatra and A Midsummer Night's Dream - in these five plays there's so much more to love than love. These are not tidy tragedies. Shakespeare apparently never left England except through his plays yet he embraced interracial relationships and relationships supernatural relationships into thrilling, dangerous drama.
We bring together scholars, directors and actors to explore how the compulsions and fears, joys and sorrows, very much part of everyday life for many in Britain today, were so consummately showcased by Shakespeare more than four hundred years ago.
Producer Mohini Patel.
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- Thu 5 May 2016 13:45±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Fri 30 Dec 2016 00:15±«Óãtv Radio 4