The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Conveying Shakespeare's meaning

Staging Shakespeare by Oxford University

Aug 23, 20123:27Education

The actor Dylan Townley talks about the language of Shakespeare. He describes how understanding and using the meter can help an actor or reader to bring out the poetry in a text. Includes a scene from The Tempest.

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