Unpinning Desdemona- The Movie.

Synopsis: Online video recording a practical research experiment conducted at Shakespeare’s Globe in partnership with Globe Education in November 2008 and November 2009. Can performance offer answers to textual problems? Thinking about the striking differences between Q and F of Othello (printed only a year apart), "Unpinning Desdemona" uses 4.3 - the willow scene - as a test case for answering this question. The project records practical experiments conducted on the stages of Shakespeare’s (reconstructed) Globe using reconstructions of early modern dress to argue that the scene’s "meaning" resides in the undressing and to demonstrate how that undressing was done. It concludes that Q is not an actors’ text. As well as the video there is on the website a gallery of still images documenting the first run-through of the experiment on the stage of the Globe.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2009
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: costume; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); textual analysis; theatre history; Rehearsals; Elizabethan stage

URI: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/capital/teaching_and_learning/projects/unpinning/

Contributor

Cast

Jon Trenchard
Kelsey Brookfield

Name: University of Warwick, The CAPITAL Cente (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning)
Email: capital@warwick.ac.uk
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