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  1. Act IV ‘The Tempest’ (1998 Television, Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361
    Producer
    David Hoyle

    A television production of Act IV of The Tempest - the masque scene. Using the devices and effects of television, it aims to represent the sense of magic perhaps perceived by earlier audiences.

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  2. Hamlet: Changes in Its European Reception (1985 Audio, Television)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361

    Professor Robert Weimann of the Kunst Akademie, East Berlin, surveys the reception of Shakespeare’s plays in continental Europe over the last three centuries. As an example he looks at Hamlet.

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  3. Hamlet: Workshop 2 (1985 Television, Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361
    Producer
    David Hoyle

    Continues the theme of the first ‘Hamlet’ workshop by further examining the relationship between the soliloquies and the dynamic political moments of the play. Director John Russell Brown works on Act II...

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  4. Measure for Measure: Workshop 1 (1985 Television, Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361
    Producer
    David Hoyle

    Looking at the character of Isabella, and focusing on Act II Scene 2, the workshop attempts to show how Isabella is a far more passionate and complex character than the cold and puritanical woman who is...

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  5. Measure for Measure: Workshop 2 (1985 Television, Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361
    Producer
    David Hoyle

    Continues the examination of Isabella’s character, looking at Act III, Scene i in which she visits her brother Claudio in jail in order to tell him that he must die. Director John Russell-Brown works...

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  6. Reconstructing the Bankside Theatres (1985 Television, Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361
    Producer
    Tony Coe

    Professor Glynne Wickham looks at the latest proposals to reconstruct Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre near its original site in Southwark, examining the historical evidence for the construction of theatres in...

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  7. Shakespeare’s History Plays (1985 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361

    Professor G.K. Hunter places Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 within the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays and examines Shakespeare’s achievement in them.

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  8. Shakespeare’s Ideas in the Last Group of Plays, With Special Reference to ‘The Tempest’ (1985 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361

    Professor A.D. Nuttall examines how, in his last plays Shakespeare turns to the world of fairy tale in contrast to the realism of his earlier works.

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  9. Twelfth Night: Workshop (1985 Television, Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361
    Producer
    David Hoyle

    This workshop, based on Act II iii, shows how a group of experienced actors, with relatively little input from a director, set about developing a strategy to preserve the comic tone of the scene, while not...

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  10. Antony and Cleopatra: Workshop (1984 Television, Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare, Course A361
    Producer
    David Hoyle

    The workshop examines one of the many short, crowded scenes of the play, in which Antony takes his leave of Cleopatra before going into battle with Caesar. Director John Russell-Brown works with James...

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