12min clip - Everything You Weren't Taught About Shakespeare

12min clip - How Shakespeare Manipulates An Audience

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5min @TEDEd clip - Why should you read #Shakespeare’s “The #Tempest ”? - Iseult Gillespie

Text from youtube "Explore William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”, a story of shipwreck, magic and a fight for power.

Claps of thunder and flashes of lightning illuminate a swelling sea, as a ship buckles beneath the waves. It is no ordinary storm, but a violent and vengeful tempest, and it sets the stage for Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play. Why does this play still resonate with modern readers? Iseult Gillespie investigates.

Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Héloïse Dorsan Rachet.

6 min @TEDEd animated clip - Why should you read #Macbeth? - Brendan Pelsue

Text from youtube " There’s a play so powerful that an old superstition says its name should never be uttered in a theater. A play that begins with witchcraft and ends with a bloody, severed head. A play filled with riddles, prophecies, nightmare visions, and lots of brutal murder. But is it really all that good? Brendan Pelsue explains why you should read (or revisit) "Macbeth." Lesson by Brendan Pelsue, directed by Silvia Prietov. "

13min @thecrashcourse clip - #English #Theater After #Shakespeare: Crash Course Theater #17

Text from youtube "Shakespeare is dead. Long live Shakespeare. Well, long live English theater, anyway. Actually, it's about to get banned. Anyway, we're discussing where English theater went post-1616. We'll talk about Ben Jonson, revenge tragedies, and court masques."