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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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Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Silent Shakespeare
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 1909 silent film adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first film version of the play. Although abbreviated, the action closely follows Shakespeare's original with the...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Production Diary 6 Richard Ii (2013) Costumes
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this video clip, Alistair McArthur, Royal Shakespeare Company head of costume, shows the process of making costumes for Richard II including design, fittings, sleeve adjustments, velvet breastplates...
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Tes: Much Ado About Nothing (2014) Stage Design Film: "Creating the Set"
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Royal Shakespeare Company video clip, Designer Simon Higlett explains how he creating the model box (the set design in miniature) for Love's Labour's Lost and Love's Labour's Won (Much Ado About...
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Tes: Much Ado About Nothing & Love's Labour's Lost: Setting & Staging
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Royal Shakespeare Company video clip, Director Christopher Luscombe discusses his 2014 productions of Love's Labour's Lost and Love's Labour's Won (Much Ado About Nothing) and why he set them...
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Tes: Production Diary 10 Richard Ii (2013) Designing Richard
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Royal Shakespeare Company video clip, designer Stephen Brimson Lewis explains how he used the design of the RSC stage to set the stage for Shakespeare's Richard II. He also talked about...
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Tes: "Shakespeare's Country" (1926)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 1926 video travelogue "Shakespeare's Country" provides a guided tour of Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace [9:40].
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Tes: The England of Elizabeth (1957)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 1957 video about Queen Elizabeth 1 and Elizabethan England which gives some incite into Shakespeare's world. [26:05]
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Tes: First Encounters: Shakespeare: King Lear: Making Lear Children Accessible
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video clip from Royal Shakespeare Company's is of Director Tim Crouch discussing the 2013 First Encounter production, which is edited to shorten and simplify the play for a younger audience but...
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Tes: Production Diary 1 Richard Ii (2013): The Director's Perspective
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video clip from Royal Shakespeare Company's pre-production of Shakespeare's Richard II (2013). Artistic Director Gregory Doran explains how he's approaching the play, ideas for the design, and...
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Tes: Production Diary 2 Richard Ii (2013): First Day of Rehearsals
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video clip is of actress Emma Hamilton who plays the Queen in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2013 production of Richard II. She discusses her first day of rehearsals, her character, and a little...
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Tes: Performance Video: Hamlet (2013): Act 1, Scene 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video clip is the actor Jonathan Slinger's soliloquy in Act I, Scene 2 from the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2013 production of Hamlet. [4:28]
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Tes: Performance Video: Richard Iii (2012): Act 1, Scene 1
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video clip is Act 1, Scene 1 from the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2012 production of Richard III which features Richard III's soliloquy embracing his villainy which he believes was created by his...
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Tes: Performance Video: Henry v (2015): Act 3, Scene 1
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Act 3, Scene 1 of the Royal Shakespeare Company's (2015) production of Shakespeare's Henry V. It features Henry V's mid-battle rallying speech to his troops to continue with their attack on the...
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Tes: Performance Video: Macbeth (2011): Act 2, Scene 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Act 2, Scene 2 of the Royal Shakespeare Company's (2011) production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It features Macbeth in a very distressed state upon his return from killing the king and Lady...
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Tes: Performance Video: Macbeth (2004): Act 3, Scene 2 (1)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Act 3, Scene 2 of the Royal Shakespeare Company's (2004) production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. After the king is dead, Lady Macbeth says "What's done is done." While Macbeth says they must...
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Tes: Performance Video: A Winter's Tale (2013): Act 3, Scene 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this video from Royal Shakespeare Company's (2013) production of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale (Act 3, Scene 2), Hermione proclaims her innocence of the charges of adultery and conspiracy and...
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Tes: The Wedding Scene in Much Ado About Nothing
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this video clip, Simon Russell Beale talks about the very complicated wedding scene in the National Theatre's production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. [6:25]
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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...
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Tes: The Merchant of Venice: Silent Shakespeare
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 1910 silent film of an early Italian adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice which includes scenes shot on location. It is accompanied by teacher notes and ideas for its use in the...
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Tes: "England's Shakespeare" (London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 1939)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 1939 video "England's Shakespeare," by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway focuses on England during Shakespeare's time. This video advertisement strived to entice people to take the train and...
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Tes: "Stratford Upon Avon (Hepworth Manufacturing Company, 1925)"
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 1925 video of a tour of Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. Notes are also provided including teaching tips for using the film. [11:48]