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A companion video to MAJOR THEMES IN OTHELLO. This video shows the actual performances of the four scene sections shown in MAJOR THEMES IN OTHELLO and SHAKESPEARE - OTHELLO PORTRAYAL OF EVIL.
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...
Hungarian television broadcast of King Lear based on Csiszár Imre’s 1981 staging for the Miskolci Nemzeti Szinház. Tamás Major is Lear. Éva Igó doubles as the Fool and Cordelia.
CBC Radio series on the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. This episode discusses the role on women in Shakespeare’s plays. Timothy Findlay interviews Frances Hyland and Diana Maddox who play Regan...
Gounod’s opera performed by Opera Omaha with Craig Sirianni as Romeo and Elisabeth Comeaux as Juliet. The production was directed for stage by Leon Major and for television by Michael Farrell.
Podcast. Host Jacke Wilson talks to journalist Michael Blanding about Dennis McCarthy’s theory that Thomas North was a major influence on Shakespeare.
An operatic staging of Hamlet with music by two contemporaries of Verdi, Franco Faccio and Arrigo Boito.
Video essay by David Ramenah featuring illustrations by Karlo Lottersberger, serving as a beginner’s introduction to Othello, looking at its plot, characters and major themes. Aimed at schools.
Video essay by David Ramenah featuring illustrations by Karlo Lottersberger, serving as a beginner’s introduction to Hamlet, looking at its plot, characters and major themes. Aimed at schools.
Looks at themes of love and jealousy, proof and judgement in Othello, as well as the symbolism in the handkerchief. By playing through four key sections of the play, the video shows how the themes work.
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