Passion and coolness /

To illustrate how Hamlet's advice to the players expresses Shakespeare's direction that actors be natural and not false or grotesque, Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in a discussion and dramatization of Shakespeare's use of passion and coolness. They demonstrate...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Royal Shakespeare Company
Other Authors: Barton, John, 1928-, Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-, Carlaw, John, Evans, Nick, Snell, Andrew
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, [1982]
Series:Playing Shakespeare.
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Summary:To illustrate how Hamlet's advice to the players expresses Shakespeare's direction that actors be natural and not false or grotesque, Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in a discussion and dramatization of Shakespeare's use of passion and coolness. They demonstrate deliberate and striking inconsistencies in Shakespeare's characters; how Shakespeare's language can affect an audience; and the balancing of heightened language, naturalistic performance, emotion and intellect.
Item Description:"FFH758."
Cataloged from credits and casssette container.
Vendor website does not provide whether the original video format used for the online video was VHS or DVD. The VHS was copyrighted for 1984, and the DVD was copyrighted for 2002.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 streaming video (52 min.)
Audience:General.