Edition |
Full screen. |
Description |
4 videodiscs (approximately 456 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (16 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.) |
Note |
Collective title, episode titles & disc numeration from disc menus. |
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Originally produced as 9 episodes of the television program Playing Shakespeare in 1982. |
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Special features (disc 1): actor biographies & RSC stage credits (for Aschcroft, Dench, Howard, Kingsley, McKellen, Stewart, Suchet). |
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Viewer's guide includes highlights from each episode, questions to consider for each episode, a bibliography, a history of the RSC, and a glossary. |
Contents |
disc 1 (ca. 148 min.). The two traditions -- Using the verse -- Language and character -- disc 2 (ca. 102 min.). Exploring a character -- Set speeches and soliloquies -- disc 3 (ca. 102 min.). Irony and ambiguity -- Passion and coolness -- disc 4 (ca. 104 min.). Rehearsing the text -- Poetry and hidden poetry. |
Credits |
Cameramen, Lisle Middleditch, Mike Paterson ; videotape editor, Graham Roberts ; music by Guy Woolfenden. |
Performer |
Presented by John Barton ; actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Church, Sinead Cusack, Judi Dench, Susan Fleetwood, Mike Gwilym, Sheila Hancock, Lisa Harrow, Alan Howard, Ben Kingsley, Jane Lapotaire, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Ian McKellen, Richard Pasco, Michael Pennington, Roger Rees, Norman Rodway, Donald Sinden, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet, Michael Williams. |
Summary |
John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in nine intensive acting workshops, demonstrating how the Company makes Shakespeare's classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text's integrity. |
Audience |
Not rated. |
System Details |
DVD; Dolby digital. |
Language |
In English. |
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Subtitled for the deaf and hearing-impaired. |
Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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Genre/Form |
Instructional television programs.
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Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Television programs for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Added Author |
Barton, John, 1928-2018
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Carlaw, John.
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Snell, Andrew.
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Ashcroft, Peggy, 1907-1991.
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Church, Tony.
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Cusack, Sinéad.
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Dench, Judi, 1934-
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Fleetwood, Susan, 1944-1995.
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Gwilym, Mike.
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Hancock, Sheila, 1933-
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Harrow, Lisa.
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Howard, Alan, 1937-2015
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Kingsley, Ben, 1943-
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Lapotaire, Jane.
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Leigh-Hunt, Barbara.
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McKellen, Ian.
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Pasco, Richard.
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Pennington, Michael, 1943-
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Rees, Roger, 1944-2015
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Rodway, Norman, 1929-2001.
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Sinden, Donald.
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Stewart, Patrick, 1940-
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Suchet, David.
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Williams, Michael, 1935-2001.
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Woolfenden, Guy.
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London Weekend Television (Firm)
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Athena (Firm)
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Acorn Media (Firm)
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Royal Shakespeare Company.
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ISBN |
9781598282214 |
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1598282212 |
Standard No. |
054961822195 |
Music No. |
AMP-8221 Athena |
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