Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears"
A second Masterclass on how Shakespeare spins rhetoric for the actor, with Sam Leith, journalist and writer, and author of 'You Talkin' to M...
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Staging Shakespeare
Staging Shakespeare is series of video commentaries on performing and directing Shakespeare including extracts of two plays- 'The Tempest' and 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'. An English teacher a...
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13 episodesActing Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin'
A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company looking at what clues Shakespeare puts into the verse for the act...
The language of Shakespeare
Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student production of the Shakespeare play - Two Gentlemen...
Understanding Shakespeare
The actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it for his role in the student production of th...
Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director
The director talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. She describe...
The Tempest: For you am I this patient log-man
The director and actors talk about the log-scene in The Tempest and how they interpret and perform it. Includes scenes from rehearsals and p...
The Tempest: Our revels now are ended
The famous Shakespeare scene from The Tempest, performed by actors from an Oxford student drama society.
The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Conveying Shakespeare's meaning
The actor Dylan Townley talks about the language of Shakespeare. He describes how understanding and using the meter can help an actor or rea...
The Tempest: Prospero
Actor Dylan Townley talks with director Archie Cornish about the character Prospero. They describe how they have chosen to portray him in th...
The Tempest: Direction and interpretation
Director Archie Cornish and actor Dylan Townley - Prospero - talk about adapting, directing and performing a student Shakespeare production...
Teaching Shakespeare in Schools
A teacher talks about how she teaches Shakespeare in school, using video clips and references from contemporary culture to get the students...
The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Bringing a scene to Life
The director Archie Cornish, and actor Dylan Townley, introduce the Revel speech in The Tempest. They also discuss the context in which it a...
Shakespeare and the Stage
Professor Tiffany Stern gives a short talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in Elizabethan England.