Synopsis
Celebrity Shakespeare devotees join members of the public to recite some of Shakespeare’s best-known and best-loved speeches and sonnets. This reading is by Germaine Greer. Shown as part of Shakespeare Fortnight.
Further Information
Similar plays, poems and sonnets
See Hear | S42E6
Yvonne and Julian learn about translating Shakespeare into BSL.
Shakespeare In Perspective | Much Ado about Nothing
Writer Eleanor Bron gives her personal view of Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing. In her introduction to the play, she describes the merry courtship between Beatrice and Benedick as 'one of the least sentimental and most romantic in all literature'.