Shakespeare Uncovered | The Comedies with Joely Richardson
Joely Richardson investigates (with her mother Vanessa Redgrave) the legacy of these two brilliant cross-dressing comedies, with their missing twins, mistaken identities, and characters in disguise;...
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | The Comedies with Joely Richardson
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Joely Richardson looks into a pair of cross-dressing comedies, with their missing twins, mistaken identities, and characters in...
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | The Battle of Agincourt
On the eve of what history will remember as the Battle of Agincourt, Henry V moves among his soldiers, listening to their fears and anger made all the more poignant by their powerlessness. Henry’s...
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | Role Playing in Henry IV
A look at Hal and Falstaff’s role playing of Hal’s upcoming meeting with his father, as well as the actual meeting between Hal and his father.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | Once More Unto The Breach
Director Thea Sharrock explains that her new production of Henry V is neither pro nor anti-war, but is rather an acknowledgement that “war happens,” and an attempt to understand the individuals shaped...
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | May I with Right and Conscience Make this...
The darkly comic and ironic aspects of the justification for Henry’s campaign in France are explored, focusing especially on Olivier’s 1944 film version of the play.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | Have We Learned Anything?
This segment reflects on the transience of Henry V’s military accomplishments, the bloody price of his battlefield glory, and humanity’s ongoing inability to learn the larger lessons of war’s futility.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | A Royal Family
An overview of the play that emphasizes the theme of fathers and sons.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Richard II with Derek Jacobi
You may my glories and my state depose, but not my griefs; still am I king of those. Derek Jacobi looks at Richard II and returns to a role he played 30 years ago: the story of a king who loses his crown.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Henry IV & V with Jeremy Irons
He will give the devil his due. Jeremy Irons researches Shakespeare’s history plays as well as the differences between the real history and the father-son drama that Shakespeare creates.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Richard II with Derek Jacobi
In returning to the role of a deposed monarch whose crown is taken from him, Derek Jacobi takes a 360-degree view of this great political thriller whose title character he played more than 30 years ago.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Henry IV & V with Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons uncovers the enduring appeal of Shakespeare’s most iconic “history plays,” from the true English history embedded into the works to the father-son drama that Shakespeare created. In...
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | What is a Soliloquy?
A brief overview of the general characteristics of soliloquies.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | The Big Question: 'To Be or Not to Be?'
An introduction to Hamlet's Soliloquy from Act III, Scene i and an exploration of some of the big questions the character poses in this speech.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | Shakespeare’s Daughter
A look at how Shakespeare’s relationship with his daughter might have affected the story of The Tempest.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | Many Different Hamlets
Actors David Tennant and Jude Law discuss approaching the soliloquy from Act III, Scene i.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | I’ll Drown My Book
An overview of how Ariel’s compassion alters Prospero’s outlook and, ultimately, changes the course of the play.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Education | Grief-Stricken Hamlet
An overview of Hamlet and a discussion of the theme of loss within the play.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Hamlet with David Tennant
To be, or not to be: that is the question. David Tennant meets fellow actors who’ve taken on Hamlet and compares notes on how to play a character that's been played, probably, a million different ways.
View ArticleShakespeare Uncovered | Hamlet with David Tennant
An acclaimed Hamlet in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s hit production (also a recent Great Performances production), David Tennant meets fellow actors who’ve tackled this most iconic of roles,...
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