Playing Shakespeare

Playing Shakespeare 5: Language and character. [Videorecording] Directed by John Barton. - Princeton, NJ, Films for the Humanities, 1984, c1983. - 1 videocassette (VHS) (51 min.) sd., col. 1/2 in.

Title from data sheet. A London Weekend Television production, one of a series of workshop programs.

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.


VHS format.

FFH 755 Films for the Humanities

84706239 /F


Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Language.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Characters.


English language--Early modern, 1500-1700.

PR3072