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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It's the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Although the official story of a Stratford merchant writing for the London box office has held sway for centuries, questions over the authorship of the plays and poems persists. Derek Jacobi leads an impressive cast featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Mark Rylance on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author, and discovers a forgotten nobleman...
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
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.
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.
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
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.
8) Othello
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A version of Shakespeare's drama about Othello, and the jealousy of his mentor Jago, set in modern day London.
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.
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An interesting and informative educational resource, The Themes of Shakespeare is a major new series which explores the most important issues arising from the study of Shakespeare. Including extracts from the new feature film version of 'Macbeth', starring Jason Connery and Helen Baxendale, as well as productions and performers of the Stratford Shakespeare Company, Includes specially filmed segments of Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Othello, Hamlet, Romeo...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Combines elements of analysis, history, biography, performance, and the personal passions of six presenters to tell the stories behind the stories of six Shakespeare plays. Includes interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from celebrated film and television adaptations; and illustrative excerpts from performances staged at Shakespeare's Globe in London especially for the series.
Publisher
Heritage Video
Pub. Date
[between 1980 and 1989?]
Language
English
Description
Tour Shakespeare's birthplace and visit all those famous Shakespearian haunts: Ann Hathaway's cottage, Mary Arden's house, New Place, Hall's Croft, and many more places of interest, including the beautiful Warwickshire countryside.
Series
Criterion collection volume 41, 82, 213
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Features three Shakespeare adaptations for the screen by Sir Laurence Olivier.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
In an effort to enhance understanding of Shakespeare's plays, this program brings together visuals dealing with Elizabethan London and the Globe theater, theatrical traditions at the time, and sites associated with Shakespeare's life and family. Includes excerpts from performances.
