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(0)Royal Shakespeare Company.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
How Shakespeare used poetry to heighten the dramatic effect. How Polysyllables trip easily off the tongue while monosyllabic lines and word are packed with thoughts and feelings. Poetic phrases which say more than what they actuyally describe. The hidden poetry in seeminly unpoetic lines. The word 'time' and 'death.' Contrast and sudden changes in Shakespeare.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
What is blank verse? Why is it better for drama than other verse forms? How should it be read? In the course of trying out different stresses, the actors discover how Shakespeare uses antithesis, short lines, end-stopped lines, and pauses in the middle of a line.
4) Hamlet
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
Publisher
Maya International Vision
Pub. Date
2004, 2003.
Language
English
Description
This four-part series explores the life of the world's greatest and most famous writer. Mixing travel, adventure, interviews, documentary, and live action sequences with the Royal Shakespeare Company, it presents a biography of one Elizabethan: his life, family and friendships, triumphs and disasters, loves and his losses. Viewers see how Shakespeare's life and work were shaped by his times, how he created some of the greatest literature in the world,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare's universe and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I.
8) King Lear
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Understanding the intended irony in a phrase or speech totally changes the perception of the character speaking. Irony in a dramatic text must emerge in the reading - in the stress on words and the emphasis on antithesis. John Barton analyzes several Shakespearean texts with the actors.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
This program is about the Elizabethan relish of words -- their resonances, onomatopoeia, alliteration and antithesis. How Shakespeare uses language to define character, and how his characters use heightened language to achieve the intentions.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
How Hamlet's advice to the players expresses Shakespeare's direction that the actors be natural and not false or grotesque. Deliberate and striking inconsistencies in Shakespearean characters. Balancing heightened language and naturalistic performance, emotion and intellect. How Shakepseare's language affects the audience.
12) Macbeth
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The original Royal Shakespeare Company stars in this classic, world-renowned production of the Great Bard's riveting tale of murder, revenge, and insanity from Tony Award winner Trevor Nunn. Driven by his ambitious wife, Macbeth plots to take over the Scottish throne.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the experiences of a young man in 19th century England.
Television production of the stage play Nicholas Nickleby, which was devised to be played in two parts. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, chronicling the experiences of a young man in 19th century England.
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Under John Barton's direction, two members of the Royal Shakespeare Company explore Shakespeare's character Shylock to demonstrate how shakespeare develops a character and the multiplicity of ways in which his characters can be understood. Given the same text from The merchant of Venice and the same direction, the different readings of the part demonstrate the infinite variety of Shakespeare's work.
