Yesterday’s Actors

Synopsis

Edwin Burr Pettet from Brandeis University discusses styles of acting and parodies Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy as it might have been delivered by Alleyn, Garrick, Kemble, Irving, Leslie Howard and Marlon Brando. He concludes with an interpretation of how Shakespeare might have performed it.

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Sound

Year of release

1962

Duration

30 mins

Availability

No archive copy or distributor known (5/2011).

Credits

Contributor

E.B. Pettet

Additional Details

Production type

Documentary/Educational/News

Plays

Hamlet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

acting; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

Source: Richard N. Albert, ‘An Annotated Guide to Audio-Visual Materials for Teaching Shakespeare’ in The English Journal, vol. 54. no. 8 (Nov. 1965), pp.704-715.

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