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  1. Henry IV Parts 1 & 2: Workshop 2 (1985 Television, Video)

    Series
    Open University A361
    Producer
    David Hoyle

    The personal father-son relationship between Prince Hal and Henry is examined to see how it illuminates the larger historical issues of the play. Prince Hal is played by Michael Thomas and Henry by Peter...

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  2. Justice and Power in ‘King Lear’ (1985 Audio)

    Series
    Open University A361
    Producer
    David Hoyle

    Professor Frank Kermode, Professor of English at Columbia University, New York City, examines one of Shakespeare’s most prominent concerns - the connection between morality and power - with reference to...

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  3. Love and Wit in ‘Twelfth Night’ (1985 Audio)

    Series
    Open University A361
    Producer
    David Hoyle

    Professor Sandy Cunningham talks about the variety and complexity of the ideas of love and wit as they figure in Twelfth Night. Produced in support of the OU A361 Shakespeare course.

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  4. Measure for Measure: Some Open Questions (1985 Audio)

    Series
    Open University A361
    Producer
    Janet Thomas

    Dr Harriet Hawkins argues that it is not the resolution of moral dilemmas which is most important in Measure for Measure, but the open questions about sex, morality, psychology and society which are posed...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  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. Acting Cleopatra (1984 Audio)

    Series
    Open University A361
    Producer
    Janet Thomas

    Cicely Palser Havely talks to Glenda Jackson, who describes her approach to playing Cleopatra in Peter Brook’s 1979 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Antony and Cleopatra. Produced for the A361...

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