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Playing Shakespeare
Title:
Playing Shakespeare
Uniform Title:
Playing Shakespeare (Television program). Selections.
ISBN:
9781598282214
Edition:
Standard format (1.33:1).
Publication Information:
Silver Spring, MD : Athena ; Distributed by Acorn Media, c2009.
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (ca. 456 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (16 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.)
General Note:
Collective title, episode titles & disc numeration from disc menus.

Originally produced as 9 episodes of the television program Playing Shakespeare in 1982.

Special features (disc 1): actor biographies & RSC stage credits (for Aschcroft, Dench, Howard, Kingsley, McKellen, Stewart, Suchet).

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.
Subject Term:
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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.
System Details:
DVD; DOLBY DIGITAL.
Language Note:
IN ENGLISH.

SUBTITLED FOR THE DEAF AND HEARING-IMPAIRED.
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