The English Language

4. Modern English














1. Indo-Europeans, Celts, Romans | 2. Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians - Old English | 3. Vikings, Middle English | 4. Modern English | 5. The Celts - Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man | 6. North America - U. S. A. & Canada | 7. Down Under - Australia & New Zealand | 8. Speaking English





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King James Bible (1611)

 

 

 

The Adventure of English

 
500 to 2000 AD
 
8-part 2003 documentary presented by Melvyn Bragg (host of BBC radio's weekly program In Our Time)
 
Part 3. The Battle for the Language of the Bible
 
 
 
 
John Wyclif, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, mid 14th century. Stock Photo
 
 

John Wycliffe, the Morning Star of the Reformation

 

Documentary 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTYzSzERyJo 


 

 

 

 

God's Outlaw - William Tyndale

 

Documentary  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-h2espvbB0

 

 

A Lamp in the Dark

 

The Untold History of the Bible

 

Documentary (2 hrs. 58 min. 25 sec.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJNKI_79VuM 


 

 

 

Henry VIII, King and Emperor

 

Episode from the documentary series Monarchy with David Starkey

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHmTmC2UUyY&feature=relmfu 

 

 

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

 

4-part documentary series with David Starkey

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD11QIZFIEc

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir1YLrL-RM0

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRMXuw_KI4

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXYlioRkXm0


 

Early Modern England:

 

Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts

 

Selected lectures by Keith Wrightson from the course HIST 251, Yale University, Fall 2009

 

# 8. Reformation and Division (1530 - 1558)

 

1. The English Reformation
2.  A Gathering Crisis
3. The Royal Supremacy
4. The Henrician Reformation
5. The Edwardian Reformation

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJ6wcHU_Po

 

 

# 10. The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans

 

1. Religion and Elizabeth I
2. Catholics
3. Protestants
4. Reformation as a Series of Confirming Experiences

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPyNc0kd2z4

 

 

 

picture of King James I and VI

King James I of England (1603 - 1625)

and VI of Scotland (1566 - 1625), born

1565 

 

 

The First Stuarts

 

Documentary with David Starkey

 

(3 clips) (Removed from You Tube)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifiIHHXVRsQ 

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpA_XFWSCWo

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtrhGGrhFU4&feature=relmfu

 

 

Stuarts

 

Episode 4 of the documentary series Kings and Queens of England

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8JUQVbaEg

 


Early Modern England:

 

Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts

 

Selected lectures by Keith Wrightson from the course HIST 251, Yale University, Fall 2009

 

18. Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians

 

1. Jacobethan Consensus
2. Puritan Reformation
3. Arminian Reaction
4. Results

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh-F7Xtc8Wg

 

 

The king of the bibles; 'The big picture’: the Archbishop of Canterbury with the 400-year-old King James Bible in Lambeth Palace library; Matthew Lloyd/Getty
 

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, with the 1611 King James Bible

 

 

History of the Bible

 

King James Bible

 

Documentary by Melvyn Bragg (2011)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIzCw--JP1o

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq0Fe8L6ZrQ

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRckJ3r9Ubo

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqjMibjhK6c

 

 

King James Bible - The Indestructible Book

 
Documentary with Ken Connelly

 

(3 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcdB4H6gzk

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlcXwiDcfc

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMuiaXA_QB4

 

 

The Forbidden Book

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqarwCKiIe8&feature=related

 

 

The King James Bible (1611)

 

2011 BBC documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTL9kLt8Bik

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfrvcWEHroA

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yalVKnNMbKM

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQE5xTrT5I

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwVDa14NI0

 

 

 

What Kind of a Text is the King James Bible?

 

Manuscripts, Translation and Legacy of the KJB

 

Lecture by Bart Ehrman at Loyola Marymount University, Jan. 24, 2013

 



The Making of the King James (Authorised) Version of the Bible

 

1604-1611

 

Address by Pauline Croft

 

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/making-king-james-authorised-version-bible-1604-1611-video




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The Book of Common Prayer

Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg


17 October 2013


With Diarmaid MacCulloch, Alexandra Walsham and Martin Palmer


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ct4n4 




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England's Christian Heritage
 
How Parish Churches Evolved
 
Documentary by the English Heritage Education Service (22:48)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ8LTgS7r3A
 
 
 
Looking at an Abbey
 
Documentary by the English Heritage Education Service (17:16)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83PLSeU-e6E
 
 
Chapels
 
Monastic ruins
 
Documentary by the English Heritage Education Service (18:57)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83PLSeU-e6E
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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History of the English Language

 

Selected lectures by Seth Lerer, Stanford U., from 36 lectures recorded by the Teaching Company in 2008

 

 

Intro

 

 

Lecture # 2. About the history of the study of languages 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQw5ipt-gHs 

 

 

Part I - The Indo-Europeans

 

Lecture # 3. About the Indo-Europeans and English in pre-history

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0spFr-NeKNY  

 

 

Lecture # 4. About reconstructing meanings and sounds of languages

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uppLfF8-J70&feature=relmfu 

 

 

Lecture # 5. About historical linguistics and the stufy of culture 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpJvRvg4U4k&feature=relmfu 

 

 

Part II

 

The Germanic Peoples

 

Lecture # 6. Beginnings of English 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaOZ5j4DAYI&feature=relmfu 

 

 

Lecture # 7. The Anglo-Saxon (Old English) view of the world 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uP6PsZFzDI&feature=relmfu

 

 

The Normans

 

Lecture # 8. Did the Normans obliterate the English language?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RLoN1opWmQ&feature=relmfu

 

 

Lecture # 9. How the Normans effected the English language

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSTlP9O5f4&feature=relmfu

 

 

Middle English

 

Lecture # 10. Chaucer's English

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywAIKo3Y5d0&feature=relmfu 

 

 

Lecture # 11. Dialects in Middle English (the five major regional dialects)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBTUjc8J1Mg&feature=relmfu 

 

 

Lecture 12. Medieval attitudes towards language variations and changes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoVaF_VpvrE 

 

 

Lecture # 13. English returns as the standard language

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ikvPvmVX3k 

 

 

Early Modern English

 

Lecture # 14. The Great Vowel Shift and Modern English

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETX685iVcQ&feature=relmfu

 

 

Lecture # 15. Expanding English vocabulary (1500 - 1700)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaR0nxJcl4

 

 

Lecture # 16. Early Modern English syntax and grammar  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8H_SNHyiyY

 

 

Lecture # 17. Attitudes toward teaching English during the Renaissance

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ4Mrk5Sck0&feature=relmfu 

 

 

Lecture # 18. Shakespeare  -  drama, grammar, pronunciation

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXvH4jaybEc

 

 

Lecture # 19. Shakespeare  -  poetry, sound, sense

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRMjO4JCiuA&feature=relmfu 

 

 

Lecture # 20. The Bible in English

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAv24J9kOfI&feature=relmfu

 

 

Lecture # 21. Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_RBlMkS1Dc&feature=relmfu 

 

 

Lecture # 22. New standards in English

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlzkDFQWqU

 

 

Lecture # 23. Dictionaries and word histories

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygTjvyd-qLM

 

 

Lecture # 24. Values, words and modernity

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2HH8JhQvIM&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

 

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Early Modern English

 

Late 1400s to mid or late 1600s

 

 

 

 

The Adventure of English

 

8-part 2003 documentary presented by Melvyn Bragg (host of BBC radio weekly programme In Our Time)

  

Part 4. This Earth, This Realm, This England

 

About the first English Dictionary and Shakespeare

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojAOeCj8Vf4

 

 

 

 Related image

 

Elizabethan and Jacobite England

 

 

 

 

Shakespeare

 

2016 marks the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Death 

 

 

 

Portrait engraving of William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616) on the frontpiece of the First

Folio, published in 1623, seven years after

his death.


 

 

Replica of the Globe Theatre in London, England

 
 
The stage and seating in the Globe Theatre

 

Related image

Details about the Globe Theatre

 

 

How was English pronounced in Shakespeare's time?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s&feature=related

 

 

Words and expressions created by Shakespeare

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgZxAIiO04&feature=related

 

or 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw3pkcHRC14&feature=related

 

 

Shakespeare's Accent

 

Excerpt from Speaking the bright and beautiful English of  Shakespeare

 

British Council Seminar 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi-rejaoP7U

 

 

 

How to talk like Shakespeare

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lOFAzt8fMg

 

 

 

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In Search of Shakespeare

 

2004 BBC 5-part documentary series with Michael Wood

 

Part 1. A Time of Revolution

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h96ThdV_BM

 

Part 2. The Lost Years

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Bw8ViNbnw

 

Part 3. The Duty of Poets

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IaPAkLiV2s

 

Part 4. For All Time

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7jCFeTTpJI

 

Part 5. Special Feature - Extra Footage

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubWB-eQTo8A

 

 

 

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Shakespeare and Literary Criticism


Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg


4 March 1999


With Harold Bloom and Jacqueline Rose


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545dp 



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Related image


Shakespeare's House

 

Time Team Special

 

With Tony Robinson (2012)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOPIbI5DbA

 

 

 

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Shakespeare's grave scanned inside

Short News

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDGN623yjDo

 

 

 

It's very likely William Shakespeare's Skull is Missing from his Grave

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfSVhPeKlYg

 

 

 

Is William Shakespeare's Skull Missing from his Grave?

 

Discussion

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9C9Xw5se0A

 

 

 

Shakespeare's Tomb

 

Preview of TV programme

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOfvLTSgmME 

 

 

Shakespeare's Life


Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg


15 March 2001


With Katherine Duncan-Jones, John Sutherland Grace Ioppolo


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547ct  



 

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Horrible Histories

 

William Shakespeare's Song

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Cy4-rfd24

 

Lyrics to Song

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AHwdZiB3Hg

 

William Shakespeare

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zchaqy2AlnQ

 

 

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Shakespeare's 37 plays are divided into three kinds:
 
Comedies (17),
Histories (10) and
Tragedies (10)
 
 
Comedies
 
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labours Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
 
 
Histories
 
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III
 
 
Tragedies
 
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus

 
Poetry
 
The Sonnets
A Lover's Complaint
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
Funeral Elegy
 
 
 

 
 
 

Shakespeare  

 

By most accepted date of composition

 

(from various websites)

 

 

1589   

 

Comedy of Errors (Comedy)

 

1590   

 

Henry VI, Part II (History)

Henry VI, Part III (History)

 

1591    

 

Henry VI, Part I (History)

 

1592    

 

Richard III (History)

 

1593    

 

Taming of the Shrew (Comedy)

Titus Andronicus (Tragedy)

 

1594    

 

Romeo and Juliet (Tragedy)

Two Gentlemen of Verona (Comedy)

Love's Labour's Lost (Comedy)

 

1595    

 

Richard II (History)

Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy)

 

1596    

 

King John (History)

Merchant of Venice (Comedy)

 

1597    

 

Henry IV, Part I (History)

Henry IV, Part II (History)

 

1598    

 

Henry V (History)

Much Ado about Nothing (Comedy)

 

1599    

 

Twelfth Night (Comedy)

As You Like It (Comedy)

Julius Caesar (Tragedy)

 

1600    

 

Hamlet (Tragedy)

Merry Wives of Windsor (Comedy)

 

1601    

 

Troilus and Cressida (Comedy)

 

1602    

 

All's Well That Ends Well (Comedy)

 

1604    

 

Othello (Tragedy)

Measure for Measure (Comedy)

 

1605    

 

King Lear (Tragedy)

Macbeth (Tragedy)

 

1606   

 

Antony and Cleopatra (Tragedy)

 

1607    

 

Coriolanus (Tragedy)       

Timon of Athens (Tragedy)

 

1608   

 

Pericles (History)

 

1609   

 

Cymbeline (Comedy)

 

1610    

 

Winter's Tale (Comedy)

 

1611    

 

Tempest (Comedy)

 

1612    

 

Henry VIII (History)

 

 

 

Shakespeare's Plays arranged by date of first performance

 
 

First Performed

Plays

First Printed

1590-91

Henry VI, Part II

1594?

1590-91

Henry VI, Part III

1594?

1591-92

Henry VI, Part I

1623

1592-93

Richard III

1597

1592-93

Comedy of Errors

1623

1593-94

Titus Andronicus

1594

1593-94

Taming of the Shrew

1623

1594-95

Two Gentlemen of Verona

1623

1594-95

Love's Labour's Lost

1598?

1594-95

Romeo and Juliet

1597

1595-96

Richard II

1597

1595-96

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1600

1596-97

King John

1623

1596-97

The Merchant of Venice

1600

1597-98

Henry IV, Part I

1598

1597-98

Henry IV, Part II

1600

1598-99

Much Ado About Nothing

1600

1598-99

Henry V

1600

1599-1600

Julius Caesar

1623

1599-1600

As You Like It

1623

1599-1600

Twelfth Night

1623

1600-01

Hamlet

1603

1600-01

The Merry Wives of Windsor

1602

1601-02

Troilus and Cressida

1609

1602-03

All's Well That Ends Well

1623

1604-05

Measure for Measure

1623

1604-05

Othello

1622

1605-06

King Lear

1608

1605-06

Macbeth

1623

1606-07

Antony and Cleopatra

1623

1607-08

Coriolanus

1623

1607-08

Timon of Athens

1623

1608-09

Pericles

1609

1609-10

Cymbeline

1623

1610-11

The Winter's Tale

1623

1611-12

The Tempest

1623

1612-13

Henry VIII

1623

1612-13

The Two Noble Kinsmen*


1634

Play

Historical Time of Action

Troilus and Cressida

1194–1184 BC (Trojan War)

King Lear

800 BC

Coriolanus

494-490 BC

Timon of Athens

431-404 BC (Peloponnesian War)

Julius Caesar

44-42 BC

Antony and Cleopatra

40-30 BC

Cymbeline

AD 16

Titus Andronicus

AD 250–450 (Late Roman period)

Hamlet

roughly 9th century

Macbeth

AD 1039-1057

King John

AD 1199-1216

Romeo and Juliet

AD 1303 (lasting a few days)

Richard II

AD 1398-1400

All's Well That Ends Well

14th century

Henry IV, Part I

AD 1402-1403

Henry IV, Part II

AD 1403-1413

Henry V

AD 1414-1420

Henry VI, Part I

AD 1422-1444

Henry VI, Part II

AD 1445-1455

Henry VI, Part III

AD 1455-1471

Richard III

AD 1477-1485

Measure for Measure

roughly AD 1485

Henry VIII

AD 1521-1533

Othello

AD 1570 (when Cyprus was invaded by the Turks)

The Merry Wives of Windsor

time of Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

time of Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

time of Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

time of Shakespeare


Plays with an unspecified time of action:


As You Like It


The Comedy of Errors


Love's Labour's Lost


A Midsummer Night's Dream


Much Ado About Nothing


Pericles


The Two Gentlemen of Verona


The Tempest (Noting the contemporary reference to the shipwreck off the Bermuda coast.)

The Winter's Tale
 
 

 

 
 
 
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The First Folio
 
Lecture by Eric Rasmussen in Stratford, Ontario about the 232 surviving copies of the First Folio, the collection of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623 by his collaborators John  Heminges and Henry Condell, seven years after his death.
 
Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2014)
 
Forum
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Texts of Hamlet before 1623 compared with the First Folio

 
 
 
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The Shakespeare Mystery

A documentary presented on the PBS-TV program Frontline in 1992

56 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkqcLJZ9I3s

 

William Shakespeare

Documentary

bio.com

56 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFvKHX9jY9U

 

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For all plays and texts, see:
 
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Comedies

 

 

All's Well That Ends Well

 

RSC - BBC

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do6Ggvhx9gg

 

 

As You Like It

 

Laurence Olivier (1936)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEQDF9BPLA0

 

or, the same:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9hTxzLHU3I

 

or the same with captions: 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFChichBoPI

 

 

The Comedy of Errors

 

RSC - BBC (8 clips)

 

clip # 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3n0gv9HwBQ

 

 

Cymbeline

 

BBC (1982) 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWO0hL6lncs 

 

 

Love's Labours Lost

 

BBC

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmV4VA8WFYc

 

 

Measure for Measure

 

BBC (1979)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xs896UWdQ

 

 

The Merry Wives of Windsor

 

BBC

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipmwaobQk4

 

 

The Merchant of Venice


See Selected Plays below

 

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Mickey Rooney (1935)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P39Fh8JwqPw

 

BBC (15 clips) 

 

Clip # 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c64f0C4TGq0

 


A Midsummer Night's Dream


Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg


18 April 2019


With Helen Hackett, Tom Healy and Alison Findlay



https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00046rp


 

Much Ado about Nothing

 

BBC (1984)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb-M2E_FfV8

 

 

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVVd6r4CYis

 

 

The Taming of the Shrew

 

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6janVbUFOE 

 

 

The Tempest

 

 

Troilus and Cressida

 

BBC

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rxxZsbuenI

 

 

Twelfth Night

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvUXsxw-1Zg

 

Kenneth Branaugh (1998)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3J17Jp0ag

 

Alec Guinnes (1969)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuwgQ9Qof88

 

 

Two Gentlemen of Verona

 

 

The Winter's Tale

 

 

Two Noble Kinsmen 

 

 

 

 



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As You Like It

Laurence Olivier

1936

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBwHQSbUdY

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIpBD6qhpo0

With captions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFChichBoPI

William Walton

Suites from As You Like It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvicAAH-ew

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THE TAMING OF THE SHREW


By D. W. Griffith

Filmed at the Biograph studio in New York City and by Fort Lee, New Jersey.

1908

18:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp4NWn0uEU0

and

19:10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qskMJ1YkteI


By the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company

1923

12:47

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuwdLl8eg9g


The Taming of the Shrew

By Sam Taylor

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford

1929

Black and White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK6vKByhnCk&t=0s

Colourised

1:05:04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boABdwFFyy4&t=514s


The Taming of the Shrew

Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

With Michael York and Natasha Pyne

Directed by Franco Zeffirelli

Filmed in Rome

1967

2:01:41

https://ok.ru/video/1009576708610





THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

BBC Television Shakespeare

Produced and directed by Jonathan Miller

1980

126 min.

https://ok.ru/video/2095634909739


The BBC TV play follows Shakespeare's text closely. It omits the Induction (both scenes). It adds a song at the end.


Folger Shakespeare Text Online

https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/the-taming-of-the-shrew/read/




COLE PORTER

KISS ME, KATE!

A Broadway musical stage play with music by Cole Porter

A play about producing Taming of the Shrew

1948


Movie

Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn

1953

1:50:18

https://m.ok.ru/video/3797880474292



Kiss Me, Kate!

Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison and Julie Wilson

Hallmark TV Show

1958

1:29:03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=093myaltXAY



Kiss Me, Kate!

The Proms

The John Wilson Orchestra

BBC

Stage performance

2015

2:13:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKVGo7FL4n8


 
                   ---------------
 
 
 

Histories

 


 

Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1

 

BBC

 

(clip # 1 of 11)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_X58AAFW9k

 

 

Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2

 

BBC

 

(clip # 1 of 11)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCTFuBWN2DY

 

 

 

Henry V

 

See selected plays, below


 

 

Henry VI, part 1

 

BBC


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7b42PJOHJA

 

 

 

Henry VI, part 2

 

BBC


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLWTLMYqYm4

 

 

 

Henry VI, part 3

 

BBC

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lceep920uKw

 

 

 

Henry VIII

 

BBC

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZffDb4vLSE

 

 

 

King John

 

BBC

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-iywDyiiA

 

 

 

Richard II

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A89wTSJ_j8g (Removed from You Tube) 

 

In 21 clips, start here: 

 

Clip # 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hlpugd1P1w 

 

 

 

Richard III

 

BBC

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXEOAFiOGAE

 

 



Is Shakespeare History?


The Plantagenets


Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg


11 October 2018


With Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan and Katherine Lewis


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000nd9




See selected plays below

 

 

 

 
 
                                -----------------
 
 
 
 

Tragedies

 

 

 

Antony and Cleopatra

See Selected Plays below

 

 

 

Coriolanus


 

Coriolanus

 

Clip # 1 of 11

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGwenj4QY2c

 

 

See Selected Plays below

 

 

 

Hamlet

See Selected Plays below

 

 

 

Julius Caesar

 

See Selected Plays below

 

 

 

King Lear

 

King Lear (Orson Welles)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGKGzBWWCuU

 

 

 

 

Macbeth

See Selected Plays below

 

 

 

Othello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYb30t4PNjU

 

Othello – Orson Welles

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09NWcKA7JKw

 

 

Filming Othello

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvqeQt8aLnU

 

 

Othello - Orson Welles - With Audio Commentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dywhWg3Pim8

 

 

 

Romeo and Juliet

See Selected Plays below

 

 

 

Timon of Athens

 

Titus Andronicus

 

 

Titus (1999)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f1mOc63gKc

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WwRyRKiGfs

 

 

See Selected Plays below

 

 

 

-----------------

 

 

 



Othello

A silent film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki

1922

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lEuL3GA-hk



Othello (movie)

Orson Welles

1952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09NWcKA7JKw


Filming Othello

Orson Welles

1952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvqeQt8aLnU


Othello

Orson Welles With Audio Commentary

1952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dywhWg3Pim8



Othello

Gordon Heath as Othello

BBC Television

1955

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p09pW2k8Y6M



Otello

Laurence Olivier

Movie 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p09pW2k8Y6M

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcnN2DrBBV8

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW82AddEgZk


Comments by Laurence Olivier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uiAkt8CcjE



Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice

Anthony Hopkins

BBC - TV

1981

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCdHpKXw_Tg





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Poetry


The Sonnets



A Lover's Complaint



The Rape of Lucrece


The Rape of Lucrece

Complete Audiobook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29cNROlz8nM


Read by Gerald Logan

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJcWuhhMq9w

Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78meCAosbes&t=20s


The Rape of Lucrece

Richard Burton

Omits the Dedication and the Argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR_uLV-pYpk

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPJk70LvaTE&t=95s



Venus and Adonis



Funeral Elegy




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Playing Shakespeare

 

Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)

 

Nine episodes (1984):

 

 

1. The Two Traditions

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2VnxiW3oqk

 

 

2. Using the Verse

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3rMaHqH2TE

 

 

3. Language & Character

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V18sryRXik

 

 

4. Exploring a Character

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWt54ABOdzg

 

 

5. Set Speeches & Soliloquies

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2VVD6pND1g 

 

 

6. Passion & Coolness

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiUe9vnibnQ

 

 

7. Rehearsing the Text

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t-HrRaqsXI

 

 

8. Exploring a Character

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwRj8B1dXfk

 

 

9. Poetry and Hidden Poetry

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAHJnjYqTik

 

 

 

 

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Selected Plays:

 

 

 

Julius Caesar

 

Morte di Giulio Cesare painted by Vincenzo Camuccini (1798)

 

 

Synopsis of play

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgyAPrv30eg&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

Julius Caesar


Assassination scene (1979)

 

Excerpt from 1979 production

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H-Kztt6WpM


 

Brutus' and Marc Antony's Orations

 

Excerpt from 1945 movie

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSiAYKOQ2HU


 

Brutus' speech

 

Excerpt from 1953 movie with James Mason

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6X-8dokRE

 

and

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmjCZu4TGIo


 

Antony's speech

 

Excerpt from 1953 movie with Marlon Brando

 

Incomplete speech

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X9C55TkUP8&feature=related

 

Complete speech (audio only)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_6Dz1pZ894

 

Excerpt from 1970 movie with Charlton Heston

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bi1PvXCbr8

 

Excerpt from 1979 RSC production with Richard Pasco

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfmAMYYAFzs

 

 

Julius Caesar

 

1950 movie with Charlton Heston

 

Start here:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjo6FG_4M7g&feature=related

 

(continued)

 

 

1970 movie with Charlton Heston

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bi1PvXCbr8

 

 

BBC Shakespeare Collection (1979)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKEGVoPzdg

 

or in 11 clips

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdrBYFdJKxw&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ0Vl_4y9Ac&feature=relmfu

 

(continued)

 

 

Entire text of play:

 

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/full.html

 

 

A word about Plutarch, Shakeapeare's main source

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyq0og75kHw

 

 

Brutus and the Opposition to Caesar

 

Lecture # 13 of the course Famous Romans by J. Rufus Fears from The Great Courses

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgwJcILRmWk

 

 

Julius Caesar

 

Episode from the documentary series Emperors

 

Removed from You Tube

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLpNzkY8Les 

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHQxQH_lVNw&feature=related

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIX27PLgYzg&feature=related

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHPzx7aRVLw&feature=related

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bgtgG41wk4&feature=related

 

 

 

Julius Caesar

 

Episode # 3 of the documentary series

 

Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire

 

 
 
 
Rome

 

Episode from the documentary series Rome Revealed

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPsMryt82Ks&feature=related


 

 
Julius Caesar

Episode from the documentary series When Rome Ruled

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5SzITk82Bs

 

 

 

Caesar Conquers Gaul

 

Two documentaries

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A06LUlZFnjs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvL_ZNFrys&feature=related

 

 

 

Julius Caesar

 

Brief biography by Rex Warner

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKgqMu2mmuI&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

The Death of Caesar

 

History's Most Famous Assassination

 

Lecture by Barry Strauss at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 22 July 2015

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucvqNtfxxbk 

 

 

 

Trustworthiness of Ancient Sources

 

Lecture by Barry Strauss at Hillsdale College in Michigan

 

Uploaded in 2016

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO2UzM9T6DA

 

 

Much of Shakespeare's play, after the assassination of Caesar, is about the Battle of Philippi.

 

 

Philippi

 

The Battle of Philippi in 42 BC

 

Part 1 of a two-part documentary, Rome's Greatest Battles, by National Geographic (2010)

 

Movie with Latin dialogue with English sub-titles narrated in English

 

After the assassination of Julius Caesar, the armies of Caesar's long-time right hand man, Marc Antony, and Caesar's adopted son and heir, Octavian, defeat the forces of Caesar's assassins, Cassius and Brutus, at Philippi in Macedonia in 42 BC.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12eM9E0Q00U

 

Excerpts:

 

Marc Antony addresses the senate after Caesar's murder

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_IPqniaZR0&feature=related

 

Marc Antony addresses the people at Caesar's funeral

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBbdj_1B8vI&feature=youtu.be

 

Caesar's Will, Octavian

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiLT29hDhag&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

 

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Shakespeare's Roman Plays

 

 

Titus Andronicus (1593 - 1594)

 

Julius Caesar (1599 - 1600)

 

Antony and Cleopatra (1607 - 1608)

 

Coriolanus (1607 - 1608)

 

Cymbeline (1609 - 1610)

 

 

 

                 ------------------

 


Is Shakespeare History?


The Romans


Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg

 

With guests Sir Jonathan Bate, Catherine Steel and Patrick Gray

 

18 October 2018


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000qnh




                          ------------------


 

Shakespeare and the Roman Regime 

 

Lecture by Paul Cantor, University of Virginia, 13 May 2010

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M29nMzMpcL0&feature=relmfu 


 

                         ------------------- 

 

Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy

Hugh Richmond and Philippa Kelly (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-rcHUWoKyE

 

 

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Antony and Cleopatra 

 


 Related image


Image result for antony and cleopatra - Painting

 


The play Antony and Cleopatra was prepared by Shakespeare as a sequel to Julius Caesar.  

 

 

Antony and Cleopatra 
 
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 1974
 
TV
 

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=h5ZNPlSQH3M

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pds_tbQGGBo 

 

4. . . . continued

 

 

 

Antony and Cleopatra

 

Directed by Charlton Heston (1972)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE8NHnyJG08

 

 

Actium

 

The Battle of Actium ((31 BC)

 

Part 2 of the two-part documentary Rome's Greatest Battles by National Geographic (2010)

 

The naval forces of Octavian defeat the naval forces of Marc Antony (83 - 30 BC) and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra (69 - 30) in the Ionian Sea off the Greek coast of Epirus outside the Gulf of Actium.

 

The victory gave Octavian sole command of the Roman empire. Egypt was made a Roman province.

 

Movie with Latin dialogue with English sub-titles narrated in English

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2VJAbFSKAk

 

 

 

 

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Coriolanus

 

 

Related image

 

 

Coriolanus 

 

BBC TV  (11 clips)

 

Clip # 1. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGwenj4QY2c

 
 
Coriolanus
 

Shakespeare's first tragedy, also his first Roman play

 

Text of entire play

 

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/titus/index.html

 
 
 
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Titus Andronicus

 

 

 

Titus Andronicus

 

BBC-TV (1985)

 

(12 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUxS64wVZzA

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdpVXWPBGs

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rsLl8wDLg4

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0nxkAUJp0 

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FC5cIUgjI4 

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqJ6bkpD-iM 

 

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7_EYe3zwrI 

 

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGmQWYUxjXk 

 

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXix4NwNyZY 

 

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1kFGne8uSE 

 

11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU2zz8WMNYI 

 

12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e4_XbxGZPc 

 

 

 

Titus
 
Performed as a revival in 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins

 

Advertisement: 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-snslXbUv7I 

 

Movie:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f1mOc63gKc 

 

Movie (with captions): 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WwRyRKiGfs 

 

or in 17 clips:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbpoG092YAQ

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8f4H-CDkY

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1McPufJk7U

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_wE9Ns_PD0

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wshIU--vW4E

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaORYY-Nt6o

 

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=NKK_13ubbDA

 

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_bE15jqNxI

 

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMPAtA0raM

 

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxmSt041Mhs

 

11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvrjgqBrMas

 

 

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DnNHtR0pI

 

14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd60tmSHK0k

 

15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig-KoYI3dD4

 

16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGROxgc65Zk

 

17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6x-WvcdUmA

 

 

The Making of a Production:

 

Titus Andronicus

 

 
 
 
 
--------------------
 
 
 
 
 
Cymbeline
 
 
 

Cymbeline

 

BBC (1982) 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWO0hL6lncs 

 

 

 

 
 
 
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 Romeo and Juliet
 
 
 
The painting Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksen (1884)
 

 

Summary:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRrvQ1vZxcg&feature=relmfu

 

 

Romeo and Juliet

 

1968 movie (excerpt)

 

Balcony scene

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOAJnheSMKE

 

 

 

 

Romeo and Juliet

 

1976

 

In two clips:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=079_iKX9VVI

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqX2HawwxzI

 

 

 

 

Romeo and Juliet

 

2014

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPf3BnaE2Jg

 

 

 

  

Entire text of play:

 

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/full.html

 

 

 



Romeo and Juliet

Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg

With guests Helen Hackett, Paul Prescott and Emma Smith

17 February 2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014gmls


 
 
 
 
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Henry V

Henry V

 

Henry the Fift

 

British movie with Laurence Olivier (1944)

 

Entire film (2 hrs. 10 min. 54 sec.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhuOwp3Ds-M

 

Excerpts:  

Prologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOQozTk5Gj0&feature=related

 

 

St. Crispin's Day Speech (Battle of Agincourt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jXFnQUU7yg 

 

 

Henry V
 
Excerpts from the score composed for the 1944 film of Shakespeare's play with Laurence Olivier 
 
 
with Christopher Plummer (date unknown)
 

 

 

Richard Burton - St. Crispin's Day Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7NrnLsr5g&feature=related 

 

Entire play

 

Henry V 

 

1989 movie with Kenneth Branagh

start here: 

Clip 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3K9WZGXg5Q&feature=related 

Clip 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jcZo16o7cc&feature=relmfu 

Clip 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-N28JMGhmk&feature=relmfu 

(continued) 

 

Entire text of play: 

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/henryv/full.html 

 

About the Battle of Agincourt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMtb1aYNBvU 

 

A documentary about the Battle of Agincourt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy7DT_FTms0&feature=related

 

 

 



Henry V

Laurence Olivier

1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhuOwp3Ds-M

Remastered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLBQIwZ_h4


Henry V

Kenneth Branagh

1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpWvbSnWEVo




The Life of Henry V

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNjH-old6dY


Henry V of England

History of Monmouth

Brief History documentary series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-x0aT88gI


Henry the Fifth

r. 1413 - 1422

Documentary with Nigwl Spivey

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnMx9wAspHE

Part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whpJiCNRwRw

Part 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP-ub-uBneI



Battle of Agincourt

25 October 1415

Saint Crispin's Day

Azincourt, northern France



Agincourt

A hundred years of war

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emr6A8WaL8Q


The Battle of Agincourt

Great Battles documentary series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1UZHMxwa8


Agincourt

Dan Snow interviews Mike Loades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Xwx12ekSU


Agincourt or Azincourt?

Victory, Defeat and the War of 1415

Lecture by Helen Castor

Gresham College

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYcJuZd7BY


 
 
 
 
----------------
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

MacBeth

 

 

 

 

 

Summary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzAujyWpK_s 

 

 

Excerpt of 1971 film by Roman Polansky: 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNg2XWMxktM

 

 

 

BBC Special TV (1983)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0LrdOa7uZQ

 

 

 

 

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Hamlet

 

 

Henry Irving as Hamlet painted by Edwin

Longsdan Long 

 

 

Synopsis:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0CqUTmwKiM

 

Entire play with Richard Burton and John Gielgud (1964) 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRU5yLgs0zw&feature=related

 

(excerpt)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsrOXAY1arg&feature=related

 

 

Entire play (1990)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN0y2OAesYE&feature=related

 

Text of entire play:

 

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html

 

 

Shakespeare's Hamlet

 

Orson Welles

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QgQWD-OYbM

 

 

Hamlet

 

Half-hour excerpt of discussion about Hamlet with Orson Welles, Peter O'Toole and Ernest Milton  

 

With Huw Wheldon on Monitor on BBC-TV

 

October 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU

 

 

Hamlet

 

Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg

 

With guests Jonathan Blake, Carol Rutter and Sonia Massai

 

28 December 2017

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jqtfs

 

 



HAMLET

Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Anthony Quayle

1948

2:33:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsPPI_7x1dk&t=1727s

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsPPI_7x1dk&t=900s



HAMLET AT ELSINORE

Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine

Filmed in Elsinore

BBC

1964

2:50:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmjFgYdvcGI&t=15s



 
 
 
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The Merchant of Venice

  

 

 Related image

Shylock and Jessica by Maurycy Gottlieb (1876)

  



The Merchant of Venice

 

2004 movie with Al Pacino:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mpm3FeirH0&feature=related

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bZWZEwY21Q

 

Excerpts:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reIaLP1qY0M&feature=related 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSUuczZcUaU

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvz-QTZjyys&feature=related

 

 

 

BBC

 

(1979)

 

(12 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoJpdKwYqw&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JBOu1JjxRI&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tISmQ7P1ZVs&feature=relmfu

 

(continued)

 

 

 

A Revival with Laurence Olivier (1974)

 

(14 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EGBKuapkX4

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpiUcf7DOug

 

(continued)

 

 

 

Entire text of play:

 

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/merchant/full.html

 

 

 



The Charlie Rose Show

Discussion about The Merchant of Venice (2004 film)

With Al Pacino (Shylock), Jeremy Irons (Antonio) and Michael Radford (director)

2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iha_C-zxf4M



 
 
 
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King Richard III

 

 

 


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Laurence Olivier as King Richard III in 1955 film.



The Tragedy of Richard III

 

Entire play (BBC)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXEOAFiOGAE

 

Entire text of play

 

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/richardiii/full.html

 

 

  

Richard III

 

Entire 1955 movie with Laurence Olivier in one clip

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9lbwlpAe24

 

Available in 16 clips:

 

Start here:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y5J4zZeVFw

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQYM382vnU4

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdKk49S8x8o

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjbTxy1aJzU

 

Continued . . .

 

 

Richard III

 

Revival (1995)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqoZgEYEL2g

 

 

King Richard III (1452-1485)

 

Documentary from the Kings and Queens series with Nigel Spivey

 

(3 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZTRA8i1-7k

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJQbUDFWEY

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHcDxgzni5k

 

 

Richard III

 

Episode from the documentary series Fact or Fiction with Tony Robinson

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH7Nyx19amQ

 

 

The Tower of London on the Thames 

 

 

The Princes in the Tower, 1483

 

2005 movie

 

Thomas Moore recounts the fate of the princes in the Tower of London and the Pretender Perkin Warbeck  

 

Jump to the end for a recent discussion of modern DNA testing of the skeletons of two children found in the tower in 1674

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM_BKT5mtQ

 

 

Wars of the Roses

 

Episode from the documentary series Campaigns in History with Brian Blessed (1994)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWRQOyYEvaQ

 

 

Battle of Bosworth Field

 

Episode from the documentary series War Walks with Richard Holmes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAg1PchkG6s

 

 

Battle of Bosworth

 

Excerpt from the BBC documentary series Monarchy with David Starkey

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLBTnq_XJh0

 

 

 

The Battle of Bosworth Field

 

Discussion on the weeky BBC radio program In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg (April 26, 2012)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ghc43

 

 

The Ghost of Richard III

 

Horrible Histories

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfb_jAh6eFk

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxTim7fJLis

 

 

Richard III

 

The King in the Car Park

 

2012 Documentary   

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uUycrk5AfY

 

 

Richard III

The New Evidence

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHDvnnK4nI

 

 

Richard III

The DNA Analysis & Conclusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYY-usw9K_U

 

The Search for King Richard III

The Scientific Outcome

 

February 4, 2013

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91R-LkW2x3s

 

 

 

Richard III's Second Burial
 
Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) News
 
March 26, 2015
 
 
 
 
Burial Highlights
 
CBC News
 
 
 
 
Richard III
 
The King Laid to Rest
 
March 26, 2015
 
 
 
 
Funeral Coverage
 
March 26, 2015
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Life of King Richard III

& the History of the Wars of the Roses

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dmCNIk9sXA




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Christopher Marlowe

Marlowe


Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg


7 July 2005


With Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonathan Bate and Emma Smith.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9d6




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English Today

 

The King's English

 

 

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King George V 

 

Address, 1923

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89CJ_8lqDdA&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL692C68B4B4FD6F64

 

Address, 1935

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2pShTJBoAY

 

 

 

The Queen's English

 

Queen Elizabeth's Crown

 

 

Queen Elizabeth II

 

Broadcast to children, 1940

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89CJ_8lqDdA&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL692C68B4B4FD6F64

 

 

Christmas Message, 1957

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSq9hmOtH1M

 

 

Tribute to Diana, late Princess of Wales

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_moIV4wDQsY

 

 

British National Anthem -

God Save the Queen

 

God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save The Queen
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save The Queen.

 

Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign:
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save The Queen!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk&feature=related

 

Rule Britania

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XPHL4Q86t4

 

Land of Hope and Glory (Pomp and Circumstance)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=podh1wht9RY&feature=related

 

Jerusalem

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yaxVYNGaUU&feature=related

 

I Vow To Thee, My Country

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh0oVr0PHF8&feature=related

 

 

 

 

The History of England and the Monarchy  

 

 

Britsh Royal Family Tree

 

From William the Conqueror to Prince George of Cambridge


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLn3JD-8-5A

 

History of the Kings and Queens of England

The British monarchy from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth II

 

2004 TV documentary series with Alan Ereira

 

All six episodes on one clip (4 hrs. 35 min.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlhItimrgWo

 

 

 

Monarchy

 

BBC documentary series in 17 episodes with David Starkey

 

1. A Nation State

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNupWpHWzrQ 

 

2. Aengla Land

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwWKqBwaEHo 

 

3. Conquest

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4thhJiPAZT0

 

4. Dynasty - King Henery II and his heirs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWvb9c6itwc&feature=relmfu

 

5. A United Kingdom  - The Edwardian Century 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ2D5vEkh-U&feature=relmfu

 

6. Death of a Dynasty 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53FgQyOJ_5s&feature=relmfu

 

 7. The Crown Imperial

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il43ATu1xOE&feature=relmfu

 

 8. Henry VIII King and Emperor

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHmTmC2UUyY&feature=relmfu

 

 9. The Shadow of the King

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGNh-WjAXo&feature=relmfu

 

10. The Stuart Succession

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmnIwsySg-Q&feature=relmfu

 

11. Oliver Cromwell - Puritan, Lord Protector

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6K9bOIaVs&feature=relmfu

 

12. Return of the King

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ3lCtbxxC4&feature=relmfu

 

13. The Glorious Revolution

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMHpDM3qb0&feature=relmfu

 

14. Rule Britannia

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEQfc7PMbyg&feature=relmfu 

 

15. Empire

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy6zvQZP9VY&feature=relmfu

 

16. Survival

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gpu-tKkpO4&feature=relmfu

 

17. The Royal House of Windsor (10 clips)

 

start here:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeMY_f50RT4

 

continued . . .

 

 

On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning British monarch in history

  

The Queen's Longest Reign

Elizabeth and Victoria

BBC documentary (2015) (58:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eXpoZ6W5ts

The Royal Jewels

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_4odbhWSw

 

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The Queen's Engraver

Donald Jackson

Alphabet

The Story of Writing

 

Four-part documentary with Donald Jackson

 

Narrated by Susannah York 

 

(1980)

 

Part 1. The Making of Letters

 

Part 2. The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IUBglyvt8o

 

Part 3. Penman, Printer and Engraver

 

Part 4. Writing   -   Everymans Art 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVaE1A9EzF0

 

 





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The Adventure of English


8-part 2003 documentary presented by Melvyn Bragg, host of BBC Radio's weekly program In Our Time


Part 6. Speaking Proper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVH6LdoEDNs


Part 7. The Language of Empire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SygpJAwypeo


Part 8. Many Tongues Called English, One World Language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGMp46OfCHI



 
 
 
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Oxford University
 
British documentary (1941)
 
 
 
 
Cambridge University
 
British documentary (1945)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Magna Carta and the Emergence of Parliament
 
 
Westminster Hall
 

An Introduction to Parliament

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAMbIz3Y2JA

The Houses of Parliament

 
What is the House of Commons?
 
 
House of Commons Chamber
 
 
What is the House of Lords?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sLZBWcPklk

House of Lords Chamber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVllfyvGfU

Who is in the House of Lords?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urwQuL4pQmg

 

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