Shakespeare in the Global Village: Shakespeare in the Classroom

Alternative title: Shakespeare in the Classroom
Synopsis: Teaching Shakespeare is discussed by three delegates at the World Shakespeare Congress. Rev. W. Moelwyn Merchant tells interviewer Phyllis Webb that academics tend to verbalise even about performances. He recalls a Lear production where the settings and the music, e.g. lightning conveyed by ragged arpeggios on piccolo, created fidelity to Shakespeare.

Daniel Seltzer, Princeton University, claims that performed texts explicate some lines because the actors’ experience gives the emotional perspective needed.

Clip of videotape productions of Shakespeare,
commentary, excerpts from productions, and student
sounds on guitar and rock. Professor Gino Matteo, University of Toronto, tells how he made these videotapes for an experiment designed by the Ontario College of Education, after leaving CBC’s
newsroom, and meets indignant rejection of this way of presenting Shakespeare from interviewer Joan Coldwell, University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Series: Ideas
Language: English
Country: Canada
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 26 Jan 1972 at 19:00 (Channel: CBC-FM)
Duration: 60 mins

British Universities Film & Video Council