Learning on Screen'Now Thrive the Armorers’: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare
- Alternative title
- Arms and Armour in Shakespeare
- Synopsis
- Podcast derived from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2008 exhibition on Arms and Armor in Shakespeare. Curator Jeffrey Forgeng of the Higgins Armory Museum with Folger Director of Research Barbara Mowat show how Shakespeare’s plays dramatise a military culture in change as the knight on horseback in Richard II gives way to the career army men of Othello. Narrated by Folger Director Gail Kern Paster.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Audio
- Duration
- 17 mins
Credits
- Director
- Richard Paul
- Producer
- Richard Paul
- Writer
- Richard Paul
- Contributor
- Barbara Mowat; Gail Kern Paster; Jeffrey Forgeng
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- armour; military history; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Podcast at: http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Now_Thrive_the_Armorers:_Arms_and_Armor_in_Shakespeare
Production Company
- Name
Folger Shakespeare Library
- reference@folger.edu
- Web
- http://www.folger.edu External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (202) 544 4600
- Fax
- (202) 544 4623
- Address
- 201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington
DC 20003
USA
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