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The play’s theme of ‘poison’ is explored, both in the physical sense of the three poisoning episodes, and in the figurative sense of subtly spreading corruption and evil.
Documentary on the authorship of Shakespeare’s play, concentrating on Edward de Vere as one of the likeliest alternative authors. Charlton Ogburn, Enoch Powell and Charles Vere, Earl of Burford argue...
Maynard Mack, Yale University, uses portraits (e.g. Sir Francis Drake), maps (Visscher’s View) and models (Globe Playhouse) to discuss the relationship between the age of Elizabeth and Hamlet. He reflects...
Professor Mack of Yale University divides the play into three sections: a ghost story, a detective story, and a revenge story. and discusses the major characters and movements, illustrated with scenes from...
Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...
Fiction film. The Shakespearean connection is unknown beyond the title.
Fiction short. Robert Hamilton Ball in Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History (p. 314) notes that although a copyright record exists in the Library of Congress no further information can be...
Tape-slide. Illustrates Shakespeare’s personal and political environments, how they may have influenced his work, and some of the major events during his years as an actor, poet, and playwright....
Tape-slide. Shows the period of history which Shakespeare wrote about in his chronicle plays and his major source of material, what each play is about, and who the major characters are. Educational...
Tape-slide. Shows the Globe’s early history, the names, location, shape, and uses of the stage areas, how the structure of the theatre directly affected Shakespeare’s plays, and the differences between...