Shakespearean Plays
My specialist subject in tuition is Shakespeare and Shakespeare on Film. The final year of my degree was focused entirely on Shakespeare. The following plays were studied in depth:
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Richard III
Richard II
Romeo and Juliet
Henry V
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
The Sonnets
For my Masters, I studied a history of Shakespeare on film before concentrating on the works of:
- Roman Polanski;
- Akira Kurosawa;
- Laurence Olivier;
- Franco Zeffirelli;
- Gregor Kozintsev;
- Kenneth Branagh;
- Orson Welles.
For my Doctoral Thesis I concentrated on the four major productions of Romeo and Juliet over the last one hundred years:
- George Cukor’s version in 1936, starring Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard
- Renato Castellani’s version in 1954, starring Laurence Harvey and an unknown Susan Shentall
- Franco Zeffirelli’s version in 1968, starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey
- Baz Luhrmann’s version in 1996, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes
- Carlo Carlei’s version in 2013, starring Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth
I have given talks at universities, schools, and cinemas on a number of Shakespeare plays and film adaptations. I have tutored numerous students at standard, advanced, undergraduate, and postgraduate level. All tutorials are on a 1:1 basis and are built around the student’s own timetable.