This Rough Magic
A Peer-Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal
Dedicated to the Teaching of Medieval & Renaissance Literature
Dedicated to the Teaching of Medieval & Renaissance Literature
~John Barton & the RSC~
Video 9: Poetry and Hidden Poetry
John Barton and the RSC ran nine workshops on Shakespeare and acting, and put these classes to film, in the 1980s. Hence, actor insight is married to scholarly approach and vice versa.
Video 9 of 9 (above) focuses on how acting can allow the reader, and the viewer, to unlock the problems and meanings associated with a particular text.