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Language and character
Title
Language and character [electronic resource] / written and presented by John Barton ; executive producers, Melvyn Bragg, Nick Evans ; director, John Carlaw ; producer, Andrew Snell.
Published
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1982.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (51 min.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally published as a videocassette.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (Theatre in video). Available via World Wide Web.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Presenter/director John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in a discussion and dramatization of Shakespeare's use of language to define character, and his characters' use of heightened language to achieve their intentions. Explores the Elizabethan relish of words and the use of Elizabethan English in the development of Shakespeare's characters.
Variant and related titles
Theatre in video.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2010
Series
Playing Shakespeare ; 5
Audience
General.
Subjects
Also listed under
Royal Shakespeare Company.
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