Digital Theatre has announced the expansion of the Digital Theatre Collections with four further productions from Shakespeare’s Globe now avialbale to rent, or to buy. The Shakespeare’s Globe Collection now includes Romeo and Juliet, Doctor Faustus, Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, Henry VIII, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Henry IV parts 1 and 2
Oh no. That’s the Darvill Faustus AND the Jamie Parker Henry IV.
Oh no oh no. I want.
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn’d away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.
The thing is,
I mean this is stunningly gorgeous,
and it’s also rightly how the colours shift in this film.
Oof, these productions, every design element in service of meaning as much as beauty… and it’s so very beautiful.
Shakespeare conspiracy theorists might still wonder who the real playwright was, but we do know what he would’ve sounded like. Linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, demonstrate the original pronunciation of the Bard’s best. Bonus: An interview with Ben on the research behind the pronunciation.
How smart is this family? David Crystal and Hilary Crystal are the authors of Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist’s Guide to Britain. See our interviews with David and Hilary on our YouTube channel.
On this side my hand, and on that side yours.
Now is this golden crown like a deep well
That owes two buckets, filling one another,
The emptier ever dancing in the air,
The other down, unseen and full of water:
That bucket down and full of tears am I,
Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.
~ William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 4 scene 1
THIS SCENE WAS FLAWLESS the thing that sets ben whishaw’s terminally overwrought dweebs apart from lesser terminally overwrought dweebs is this magical thing he does where he peeks out from behind it and shows you this whole real person who exists as fully and desperately and passionately as anybody else and is in fact all the more sympathetic because of the constructed personality he’s been using to shield himself UGH WHISHAW HOW DOES YOUR FACE WORK [butilovefire]
(NEW VIDEO)
Actor Tom Hiddleston previews The Hollow Crown, coming to PBS beginning Sept. 20, 2013 as part of the Great Performances series. This ambitious four-part miniseries assembles four of Shakespeare’s history plays — Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II, and Henry V — into a single chronological narrative.
The original “Game of Thrones” has inspired bold film adaptations with a cast of leading British and Hollywood talent including Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Patrick Stewart, John Hurt, Julie Walters, David Suchet, Michelle Dockery and David Morrissey.
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