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A Farewell to Arms: Shaping Fact for Fiction
Clips from the documentary Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick reveal how Ernest Hemingway incorporated his own war experiences in A Farewell to Arms. Young writers then take an experience from their own lives and craft it...
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Hemingway’s Influences and Contemporaries
Three clips from the documentary Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explore the events and people who influenced Ernest Hemingway.
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Exploring Hemingway’s Style
The man, the myth, and the reality. Three clips from the documentary Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick introduce viewers to the unique features of Ernest Hemingway's writing style and the events in Hemingway's life that...
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When the Book is Better than the Movie
Sometimes the book is better than the movie; other times, the movie comes out on top. A video discusses the topic of novels and their film adaptations, pointing out specific texts and how the tale translated to the big screen. The...
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Tes: I, Cinna (The Poet) 2012 Full Length Film
This is I, Cinna (The Poet) 2012 Royal Shakespeare Company Full-Length Film [48:19] based on Cinna a minor character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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Tes: King Lear (First Encounter) in Performance: Full Production
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an edited version of King Lear created specifically for younger audiences by First Encounter whose productions are edited to shorten and simplify plays for a younger audience without losing the...
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Royal Shakespeare Company: Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1 Scene 1
In this scene from Much Ado About Nothing, or Love's Labour's Won, Benedick and Beatrice trade insults about romantic love. In it, Shakespeare shows us that love can take many forms. [1:49]
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Tes: Character Film: Katharina and Petruchio: The Taming of the Shrew (2012)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company video clip features Actors Lisa Dillon (Katharina) and David Caves (Petruchio) in the 2012 production of The Taming of the Shrew, discuss their characters and the play the...
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Tes: Performance Video: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014) Act 4, Scene 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company video clip from Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014) Act 4, Scene 2 is of Turio singing of his love for Silvia outside of her bedroom window. [2:10]
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Tes: Character Film: Falstaff Henry Iv Part 1 (2014)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video is actor Antony Sher who plays Sir John Falstaff describes his character in the Royal Shakespeare Company 2014 production of Henry IV [2:00]
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Tes: Directing the Dream Film With Erica Whyman
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a short video of Erica Whyman describing the role of director and things to consider when directing a school play of A Midsummer Night's Dream. These include exploring the text, looking at the...
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Tes: Gregory Doran Talks About His Production of Henry v (2015)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Gregory Doran talks about the Henry V as a play that is a barometer for how we feel about war, reflecting the political situation of the time. [1:37]
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Tes: The Tempest: Silent Shakespeare
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 1908 silent film adaptation of The Tempest directed by Percy Stow, who used an innovative cinematic technique in which he tells the story in 11 scenes with descriptive title slides between...