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Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance: Crash Course Theater #36
The Irish Renaissance in the early 20th century included a wealth of new plays written both in Ireland, and by Irish ex-patriots elsewhere. W.B. Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, and J.M. Synge were creating a new national theater of Ireland...
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Little Theater and American Avant Garde: Crash Course Theater #40
In the early 20th century United States, big melodramatic productions were on Broadway, and everywhere across the country. Which inevitably led to an Avant-Garde backlash. An interesting part of the backlash was Little Theater, a...
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Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater: Crash Course Theater #34
Get ready for Russian modernism. Mike is teaching you about the playwrighting of Catherine the Great, Anton Chekhov's plays, the Moscow Art Theater, and the acting theories of Stanislavski. It's all very real, and very modern. From a...
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Theater in rural Appalachian Virginia brings regional themes to the stage
Barter Theatre, which opened during the Great Depression and is thriving 90 years later, is known for bringing regional themes to its rural Appalachian stage. Jeffrey Brown visited Abingdon, Virginia, to show the changing face of the...
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Octavio Solis on growing up a 'skinny brown kid' on the U.S.-Mexico border
As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a "skinny brown kid" in El Paso in his memoir "Retablos". Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite...
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The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare: Crash Course Theater #13
The Renaissance came to England late, thanks to a Hundred Years War that ran long and lasted 116 years, and then a civil war to decide who would be the royal family. BUT after all that, with the Tudors (relatively) securely installed on...
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Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama: Crash Course Theater #2
This week on Crash Course Theater, Mike is acting like theater started in Greece. Well, for the western theater, this is true. The earliest recorded drama in the west arose in Athen, and these early plays grew out or religious ritual....
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Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater: Crash Course Theater #9
When last we saw Theater, it was just making its way back in the West, by sneaking a little drama into the Easter mass. In today's episode, we're talking about Hrotsvitha, the cool 10th century nun from Lower Saxony who was maybe the...
Curated Video
Reading and performing a script based on 'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark'
Pupil outcome: I can read and respond to a play script based on 'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark' and perform it in front of an audience. Key learning points: - A play is a written text that is intended to be read aloud and acted out...
Oxford Comma
Sophocles Background and Introduction
The original sad man, Sophocles mined the depths of human misery to leave his mark on the theatrical world. While the two time general almost certainly drew upon his experiences in war, his works are not completely depressing. They also...
Curated Video
Masterclass: AI-driven Development for Programmers
AI tools like ChatGPT and GPT-4 are changing the way programmers write code. Learn how build a React app with Typescript using with AI prompting and other tricks to speed up development.
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Elizebeth Friedman
Elizebeth Friedman revolutionized American cryptology and played a crucial role in bringing down mobsters and spy rings in the 20th century.
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Lorraine Hansberry
The first African-American woman to have a play staged on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry was a writer who broke down racial and gender barriers.
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How to Read Shakespeare
“How to Read Shakespeare” explains how to read a Shakespearean play.
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: The Tempest - Theme of Power
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores the corrupting influence of power in The Tempest. See the way that power can infect and distort morality, consider power from a post-colonial perspective, and question the...
Curated Video
Art as Activism: Statements of Democracy
Art is a powerful democratic tool because it can inspire emotion and empower people to take direct action to achieve a social or political goal.
Cerebellum
Shakespeare In London: Becoming An Actor And Playwrite
Follow William Shakespeare through 16th and 17th Century London, as the bard created many of the most important works ever written. Shakespeare starts writing his plays. This video is part 3 of the series 'Understanding Shakespeare:...
National Theatre
What is a Playwright?
A playwright explains their job in simple terms, as well as some of the key skills every playwright needs, and how what they do fits together with the rest of the team.
National Theatre
Exploring Class and Race in Polly's Modern Adaptation of Miss Julie
This video discusses the updated and modern version of the play "Miss Julie" that deals with class and race. The relationships between the powerful characters, including Julie, her Brazilian housekeeper Christina, and her father's driver...
Curated Video
Measure for Measure: Context and Pre Reading | Shakespeare Play by Play Season 1
This is the first episode of Season 1. I discuss some history behind Shakespeare's plays Measure for Measure and give you some big ideas and themes to look out for. Next week, and in the next episode, I will discuss Act 1 in detail with...
National Theatre
Playwrights Series: Finding Inspiration and Crafting a Story
In this video, a playwright shares insights on writing for theater, including the importance of writing about what you find interesting and emotionally connect with, the freedom to structure a play in any way you want, and the need to...
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J B Priestley: A Soldier’s Cause (2021)
National Archives: J B Priestley was an author, playwright, broadcaster and social commentator. Best known for his plays such as ‘An Inspector Calls’ and his postscript radio broadcasts during the Second World War, his work commonly...
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Is Measure for Measure a Comedy | Genre in Shakespeare | Shakespeare Play by Play Season 1
Is Measure for Measure a Comedy? I hope to answer that here. This is the final episode of a full analysis of every Act of Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure through different themes.
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Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Scrape a Website with Loading Screen
In this lesson, we will focus on waiting for a loading screen to appear and then extract the table data instead of getting an error message. We will be using Scrapy's Playwright library to dynamically render the website and extract the...