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Title Playing Shakespeare [videorecording] / The Royal Shakespeare Company ; guided by director John Barton.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [1990]
©1990
Collation 11 videocassettes (approximately 550 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent
video v rdamedia
videocassette vf rdacarrier
1/2 in.
polychrome rdacc
analog rdatr
magnetic rdarm
VHS rdavf
Note Cataloged from credits and labels on cassettes and cassette containers
Contents [1] Speaking Shakespearean verse -- [2] Preparing to perform Shakespeare -- [3] The two traditions -- [4] Using the verse -- [5] Language and character -- [6] Set speeches and soliloquies -- [7] Irony and ambiguity -- [8] Passion and coolness -- [9] Rehearsing the text --[10] Exploring a character -- [11] Poetry and hidden poetry
Note "731, 732, 753-761"
VHS
Summary "The best trained and most experienced Shakespearean actors, stars of the Royal Shakespeare Company, examine Shakespeare's works and words. Guided by director John Barton, himself a Shakespearean scholar, the actors explore every facet of Shakespeare's work to find the meaning without which they can only recite, not perform, Shakespeare"----External container
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Study and teaching.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- Study and teaching.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Theater -- Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Alt Author Barton, John, 1928-2018.
Royal Shakespeare Company.
Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Alt Title Speaking Shakespearean verse
Preparing to perform Shakespeare
Two traditions
Using the verse
Language and character
Set speeches and soliloquies
Irony and ambiguity
Passion and coolness
Rehearsing the text
Exploring a character
Poetry and hidden poetry