YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Othello at the Globe Act II Scene 3. Othello 1995 عُطيل. GCSE Bitesize - Othello. Othello · Frantic Assembly. Othello. Enthusiastic jealousy by IndustrialCarnage, April 02, 2013 This is perhaps one of Shakespeare's more interesting plays, if you will.
In comparison to Macbeth it isn't quite the walk in the park. I think conceptually it enables the reader to see that characters can influence characters to such a degree that the original traits are masked and changed. Tragedy in this play is definitely a main component - and a great emphasis that perhaps the villain doesn't always find their true defeat. Emelia by Promatter, January 11, 2014 Just a theory The role of Emelia in Othello. Before I begin expounding on this thought, let me first say that I am not a Shakespearean “Scholar”. 3 Comments 236 out of 280 people found this helpful.
Shakespeare: did he get his history right? Shakespeare wrote in whole or part ten English history plays (eleven if we count Edward III), mostly concentrated in two short creative bursts at the beginning of his career.
Between 1590 and 1592 he wrote the plays commonly now grouped together as the ‘first tetralogy’, comprising the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III. After a short hiatus, he returned to history between 1595 and 1599, producing the ‘second tetralogy’ – Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV and Henry V. Confusingly, the historical events of these four plays precede those of the first tetralogy, but there are some connecting historical themes.
(You might want to think of it like Star Wars, with Richard II as The Phantom Menace.) During this second period, probably in 1596, he also wrote King John – an outlier, in the sense that it is set in the twelfth century. In this, he was conventional. From his sources, Shakespeare inherited a fair amount of historical bias. And doesn’t it just? Twelfth Night. Shakespeare: staging the world. The British Museum’s London 2012 Festival exhibition 19 July – 25 November 2012Reading Room During the summer of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games the British Museum presents a major exhibition on the world and works of William Shakespeare, supported by BP. Shakespeare and me: Sir Ian McKellen. Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (Ian McKellen) "Tomorrow and Tomo...
Shakespeare and me: Paterson Joseph. Shakespeare and me: Michelle Dockery. "If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner.
The only thing I don’t like about him is the way he did his hair": actor Michelle Dockery. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Observer Othello was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to. You have to try to abandon your own opinion. Shakespeare and me: Sir Ben Kingsley. Shakespeare and me: Meera Syal. "Beatrice was written as having the wit of a man, but critics hated her.
Now she’s modern – the staple romcom heroine": actor Meera Syal. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Observer I was asked to play Caliban in The Tempest at school. I didn't understand it and played the role for broad comedy, as one would at 14. Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker. Are Shakespeare's women second-class citizens? Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ("In the middle of the road of my life").
Dante's tolling words in the Divina Commedia echo in this old head as they never could before. I'm already past the middle of the road of my life, and have thus had a little time to reflect on my strange profession, a profession in which I am paid (mostly) to depict the lives of women who have caught the fancy of dramatists. The chiefest among them is still Shakespeare, who has, I think, no equal for variety and richness of character.
The chiefest among his female creations is Cleopatra – the woman who enchanted Caesar and lured Antony, who in real life ruled Egypt as queen-goddess, running arguably the most efficient theocracy of the ancient world, in which flourished the most sophisticated city outside of Periclean Athens, who fed Rome's legions with Nile-watered wheat, and who, having lost a crucial battle to Octavius Caesar, died by her own hand at 38 to escape the humiliation of a Roman triumph. Shakespeare and me: Simon Russell Beale. "I very rarely play the lovers.
I am not a Romeo – I’m just not suitable. I’d like to play Antony [in Antony and Cleopatra] though": actor Simon Russell Beale. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Observer I'd describe myself as a Shakespeare anorak, and there are people I share in this with. Recently my director Nick Hytner and I took an American visitor for lunch and bored the pants off her just talking about him. Every time you do a Shakespeare play you have to make a lot of decisions about which words to speak. The play I'm doing now, Timon of Athens, almost didn't exist. Learning Zone Class Clips - Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre - History Video. Shakespeare's Globe. Shakespeare and me: Alan Cumming.
"I’m in a very delicate state.
I’m exhausted, I’m damaged and a bit upset a lot of the day. It’s why I’m doing a relatively short run of Macbeth": actor Alan Cumming. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Observer Macbeth was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it.
It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that all the other plays weren't Scottish. I think of Shakespeare as a collective, because you'd have to be some sort of crazy motherfucker to have the brains, heart and balls to write all those things. I can sometimes sit there for ages going: "What does this mean? " I made my husband read a speech from As You Like It at our wedding. Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge. Shakespeare and me: Dame Judi Dench. Shakespeare: "Macbeth" (Judi Dench) - sleepwalking scene. BBC Four - Macbeth, Macbeth - 'Out damned spot' BBC Four - Macbeth, Macbeth - 'Out damned spot'