Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Sensational Shakespeare"

This article is about the annual Shakespeare Birthday lecture. For other articles about Shakespeare's Birthday, see Shakespeare's Birthday (disambiguation).

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This was a lecture given by Russell Jackson on April 26, 2009.

Lecturer: Russell Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Drama, University of Birmingham, is the author of Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2007), ‘Henry Irving,’ in John Russell Brown, ed., The Routledge Companion to Directors’ Shakespeare (London: Routledge, 2008), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (Cambridge University Press, 2000; revised 2nd. ed., 2007),

Listen to the lecture. File:Russell Jackson 4-13-09.mp3