Perspectives on Shakespeare
Follow your interest
Inspired by Shakespeare? Seduced by his Sonnets? We've a variety of courses for the literary and dramatic. Take a look at our section taking it further.
Related programme
The Swan of Avon. The greatest playwright. Shakespeare is a fascinating figure, a combination of history, half-truths and rumours.
Reason and rhyme
A love triangle, A dark lady - the life of Shakespeare... or Shakespearean life? Decode the sonnets.
In modern dress?
Cross dressing, ghosts, racism and war - do the modern resonances in his work make Shakespeare our contemporary?
Shakespeare's key players
"All the world's a stage", Shakespeare wrote, but what of Shakespeare's private world? Come behind the curtain to meet Shakespeare's family.
William on William
Go behind the drama and find out more about A Waste of Shame screenwriter William Boyd and the process of imagining the Bard.
Content last updated: 06/10/2005
