Crash Course
Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism: Crash Course Theater #20
Everyone knows, you need a bunch of rules to make good theater. That's what the French thought in the 17th century, anyway. The French Neoclassical revival had a BUNCH of French playwrights following a bunch of rules. Unsurprisingly,...
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English Theater After Shakespeare: Crash Course Theater #17
This week on Crash Course Theater, Shakespeare is dead. Long live Shakespeare. Well, long live English theater, anyway. Actually, it's about to get banned. Anyway, we're discussing where English theater went post-1616. We'll talk about...
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Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days: Crash Course Theater #14
This is the story of how a young Englishman named William Shakespeare stormed London's theater scene in the late 16th century, and wrote a bunch of plays and poems that have had pretty good staying power. We'll learn about Shakespeare's...
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Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes: Crash Course Theater #4
Get ready for hilarity, because this week, we're diving head first into Greek Comedy. Actually, though, maybe don't get TOO ready for hilarity. Taste in humor has changed a little over the last couple of thousand years. You already know...
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Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson: Crash Course Theater #15
Shakespeare's tragedies...were tragic. But they had some jokes. They also changed the way tragedies were written. Characters like Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear had tragic outcomes, but they were sympathetic characters in a lot of ways....
Curated Video
Identifying the Tragic Hero
A video entitled “Identifying the Tragic Hero” which explores common characteristics of tragic heroes featured in plays.
Curated Video
Is Measure for Measure a Comedy | Genre in Shakespeare | Shakespeare Play by Play Season 1
Is Measure for Measure a Comedy? I hope to answer that here. This is the final episode of a full analysis of every Act of Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure through different themes.
Curated Video
Ancient Greek Theater
Greece was home to hundreds of open-air arenas where citizens came together to discuss the important issues of the day. Like Broadway today, they were a place for both entertainment and important social commentary.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
2020 Britannica Year in Review
In 2020 the world experienced unprecedented hardships alongside joy and celebration. Britannica's readers sought out numerous topics that helped them to put 2020's events into context and better understand an astonishing year.
Press Association
ITV need to make a drama about the Windrush Scandal and Grenfell Tower tragedy, Khan says
Sadiq Khan criticised the Government's handling of the Windrush Scandal and Grenfell, as he called for compensation for the victims of those tragedies when asked about speeding up of compensation for those affected by the Horizon IT...
Curated Video
Obama attends memorial service for Navy Yard shooting victims
US President Barack Obama on Sunday memorialised the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting by calling for a transformation in the nation's gun laws to address an epidemic of gun violence.
Reprising his role of the nation's...
Bloomberg
Bill Clinton: U.S. Needs Intel Help on 'Lone Wolves'
June 14 -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton discusses U.S. intelligence gathering on potential "lone wolf" terrorists in the United States in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Westin...
Bloomberg
Boeing’s 737 Max Loses First Customer
Jul.08 -- Saudi Arabian budget carrier Flyadeal has become the first airline to officially drop an order for the Boeing 737 Max following the plane’s global grounding after two fatal crashes. Bloomberg’s Angus Whitley reports on...
Sky News
Martin Dunn Interview on Hillsborough Coverage
CLEAN: Interior shots of newspaper editor Martin Dunn being interviewed about the manner in which The Sun newspaper covered the disaster. Filmed on July 28, 1989 in London, England.
Curated Video
Lawyer for Mladic lodges appeal against extradition
1. Mid of Milos Saljic, lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic
2. Various of tracking shots of Saljic, surrounded by media asking about appeal
3. Mid of Saljic entering court building
4. Wide of Saljic surrounded by media during...
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Ex-prisoner, human rights activist on day at ICJ
Rohingya Human Rights activists expressed disappointment on Wednesday at the testimony that former Myanmar pro-democracy symbol Aung San Suu Kyi had given at the UN's top court.
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Relics of Titanic make their debut this month in Los Angeles
1. Wide exterior shot of Los Angeles Science Center museum.
2. Wide shot of Titanic exhibit banner inside the museum.
3. Close shot of Titanic exhibit workers removing suitcase (recovered from Titanic) from shipping crate.
4. Close...
Curated Video
Lynch Convenes Police-Community Forum in Detroit
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYDetroit, Michigan - 3 August 20161. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch arrives at the site of the police-community forum and is met with applause2. SOUNDBITE...
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Parkland Students Visit DC School for Rally
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida visited a school in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning that has lost two students to gun violence just this school year.
They joined with students...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Latvian PM resigns over deadly
Latvias prime minister resigned on Wednesday in the wake of a supermarket roof cave in that killed 54 people just weeks before the country enters the eurozone CLEAN : Latvian PM resigns over deadly on November 27, 2013 in Riga, Latvia...
Bloomberg
Renee Montgomery’s Journey From the WNBA Court to Her Community
Dec.04 -- Atlanta Dream point guard Renee Montgomery opted to sit-out the 2020 WNBA season in order to devote herself to Atlanta’s reeling Black community. In the process, she helped to boost the $5 million fundraising campaign of Morris...