Will@Warwick - insights into the work of William Shakespeare

One of the most eminent Shakespeare editors talks about the art. Professor Stanley Wells was co-editor of The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works and is general editor of the Oxford and Penguin editions of Shakespeare as well as Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham and honorary governor emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Discussing how Shakespeare transfers from stage to film are two experts on the subject, Tony Davies, who was a professor and head of the department of English at Fort Hare University in South Africa and Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez, who is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Malaga.

The director of the CAPITAL centre at Warwick, Professor Carol Rutter, talks about her latest book entitled Shakespeare and Child’s Play: Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen.

René Weis talks about his biography of William Shakespeare entitled ‘Shakespeare Revealed: A biography’ and Elizabeth Schafer discusses her book, ‘Lilian Baylis: A Biography’ on the influential Shakespearean director.

Emma Hayley talks about adapting Shakespeare to the ancient Japanese comic art form of manga, after launching the Manga Shakespeare book series.

The art of speaking Shakespeare is discussed by actors Ben Crystal, an expert in pronunciation of the Shakespearian period, Patrice Naiambana originally from Sierra Leone and actress Janet Dale along with writer and broadcaster Paul Allen.

Art editor of the Guardian website Andrew Dickson and Peter Kirwan, writer of the Bardathon theatre review blog, talk about how blogs have changed the art of reviewing Shakespeare productions.

Tony Howard talks about the women who have played Hamlet.

We talk to Jacqui O'Hanlon, Deputy Director of Learning at the RSC about approaches to teaching Shakespeare and learning through performance. We also speak to Jeffery Dench and Peter Cant about what they have learned during a collaboration on a new play.

Dr Laurie Maguire of Magdalen College Oxford talks about her latest book 'Where There's a Will There's a Way' and Peter Kirwan looks at three interpretations of Macbeth.

We focus on Richard II looking at a performance by the Berliner Ensemble in 2006. First we speak to two of the people involved in staging the play and then Professor Margaret Shewring talks about the play in its historical and cultural context.

In our second episode comedian Lenny Henry and director Barrie Rutter talk about studying just 14 lines of Othello. We also hear from Peter Kirwan on his year seeing every production in the RSC's Complete Works Season.

In our first episode of Will@Warwick I talk to Professor Jonathan Bate about his work editing a new edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare. We also report from the unveiling of a new statue of Macbeth by the artist Greg Wyatt in Stratford upon Avon.