 Why does Shakespeare remain a cultural icon and hero? Certainly one reason is the incredibly manifold relevance of his works. Filmed in part at the 1996 World Shakespeare Congress, this program presents a range of critical approaches to the Bard, including postcolonialism, feminism, new historicism, and cultural materialism. These perspectives are discussed by Terence Hawkes, Catherine Belsey, Russ McDonald, Stephen Greenblatt, Ania Loomba, John Drakakis, Reg Foakes, Kiernan Ryan, and Penny Gay. Produced by the Open University. (58 minutes)
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Item#: BVL29766
Copyright date: ©1999
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-5042-0
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-0939-2
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Kate Chopin: Five Stories of an Hour
This program consists of five versions of the same short story, "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, who scandalized American readers in the late 19th century by questioning the social and marital mores of her time. The story examines the behavior ...(more details) |
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Touted as one of the first major feminist writers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman spent her life fighting to liberate women from the yoke of domesticity. This is a stunning BBC dramatization of Gilman's autobiographical account of a woman driven to madness...(more details) |
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Greek Drama: From Ritual to Theater
Why do plays well over two millennia old still speak to audiences today? This program traces Greek theater from ancient harvest rites to the golden age of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Key scenes from Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, ...(more details) |
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The Metaphysical Poets
In a reaction against Elizabethan-period poetry, 17th-century English poets such as John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell began writing in a new style. Although derisively dubbed "metaphysical" because of its unseemly-that i...(more details) |
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Hamlet's Soliloquies: Perfecting Perfection
In this program, award-winning actor Tim Pigott-Smith leads a workshop with several graduates from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts on three of Hamlet's soliloquies: "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt" (Act I, Scene 2), "Now I am alone" (...(more details) |
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