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Silent amateur film shot by John V. Hansen, engineer and member of the Amateur Cinema League, of a performance of Tyrone Guthrie’s Hamlet at Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as...
Literary critic Harold Bloom talks to Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins about his new book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. Bloom explains his view that Shakespeare, through his writing, created the...
Brecht wrote the scenes to train actors in his own method for performing classical drama. The scenes were intended to be strenuously rehearsed, but then omitted when the play was presented. The idea was to...
Documentary series on evolutionary biology. In this episode presenter Dr Armand Leroi speaks of the levels of sophistication in the human brain and one of the examples given is Othello. Othello and Iago are...
Radio broadcast. Series in which Fiona Shaw tries to recreate the sounds of England during Shakespeare’s time.
Lecture. Literary critic and author of ‘Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human’, Harold Bloom expounds on Yahweh, Hamlet, Cleopatra, Falstaff, being, and the playwright himself in the culminating...
Radio broadcast. Richard Foster asks why human beings clap their hands to show approval and examines the history of applause citing the performance of Otello at Wien Staatsoper 1991 and its 101 curtain calls...
Patrick Stewart discusses and acts some of the discoveries he has made while playing Cassius in Julius Caesar. The insights presented are intended to help students see how Shakespeare continues to be...
Three-part documentary series on the human voice. In this first episode Cicely Berry, voice coach at the Royal Shakespeare Company, talks to Clare Balding about the secrets of a trained speaker.
Excerpt of the play with Simon Oates as Henry V. The programme featured a selection of scenes in which different plawrights work on the same human situation separated only by time and place. Excerpts from...
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