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Animated short. "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing". The lines inspired animator Jacques Giraldeau to dwell on man’s passion for life, and his propensity to destroy...
Ian Richardson lectures to students and theatre practitioners on acting Shakespeare, Elizabethan English, Shakespeare’s use of classical allusions, bawdy and verse reading. Recorded at the Bruno Walter...
Produced by the BBC’s Training Department and conceived as a comedy, highlights the problems which can beset a badly organised film unit on location. Shows the problems experienced by such a production...
A video-based package for the study of Macbeth through film. The video compilation features 34 extracts from the following film versions of Macbeth: 1) RSC 1978, directed by Trevor Nunn, with Ian McKellen...
A compilation of Shakespeare-related stories broadcast on PBS’s THE NEWSHOUR. Includes a discussion of a recently discovered work thought to be by Shakespeare, film treatments of Shakespeare’s plays, a...
A video-based teaching pack with video clips from Trevor Nunn’s 1996 adaptation of the play, the 1988 Renaissance Theatre Company production directed by Kenneth Branagh, and interviews about the feature...
Presents a series of exercises relating to basic acting problems. Shows the work of a first-year group of students at the Central School of Speech and Drama; their activities guided by the actor Harold Lang....
Animation students from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London created a series of short films exploring Shakespeare through animation made for a Royal Shakespeare Company exhibition...
Shows Stratford and the surrounding courntryside which form the background to Shakespeare’s early life and work. Elizabethan London is related to London scenes of the 1950s. Shows a full-scale model of an...
Television polemic. Russell Davies questions Laurence Olivier’s position as the pre-eminent Shakespearean actor, arguing that his performances are all show and no substance. This belief is compromised by...