Multimedia Collection
The Two Traditions
(Playing Shakespeare series)
VHS
50 minutes
PR3085 .T91 1984
The two traditions - Shakespeare's heightened language and our own modern naturalistic expectations - must be brought into balance if Shakespeare is to be meaningful. How to understand Shakespeare's texts, which were written two hundred years before "motivation" and "characterization" entered the critical vocabulary. Examples from Hamlet, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello.
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