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Tes: Performance Video: Julius Caesar (2012) Act 3, Scene 2

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company video clip from Julius Caesar (2012) Act 3, Scene 2 shows Antony speaking at Caesar's funeral. Although he defends Brutus's actions, he discusses what Caesar has done for...
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Tes: Coriolanus: Interview With Ralph Fiennes

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Royal Shakespeare Company video interview with actor Ralph Fiennes who directed and played the lead in Coriolanus (2011, 15). He explains why he feels the play is relevant to today's political...
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Tes: Performance Video: Love's Labour's Lost: Act 4 Scene 3 (2015)

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company's video clip from their 2015 production of Love's Labour's Lost Act 4 Scene 3 with Berowne and the King of Navarre. It is a witty mocking of their lovesick friends. [1:20]
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Tes: Performance Video: As You Like It (2013) Act 3, Scene 2

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a Royal Shakespeare Company video clip of Act 3, Scene 2 of the 2013 production of As You Like It. In this scene, Rosalind, disguised as a boy Ganymede, gets Orlando to confess his love for...
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Tes: Character Film: Ophelia (2013)

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Royal Shakespeare Company's video clip, Actor Pippa Nixon talks about the challenges of playing Ophelia in their 2013 production of Hamlet [1:00]
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Tes: Character Film: Hal and Hotspur. Henry Iv Part 1 (2014)

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company (2014) video clip features interviews with Fight Director Terry King and actors Alex Hassell (Hal) and Trevor White (Hotspur) discussing the fight scene in Henry IV Part 1...
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Tes: Character Film: Katharina and Petruchio: The Taming of the Shrew (2012)

9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company video clip features Actors Lisa Dillon (Katharina) and David Caves (Petruchio) in the 2012 production of The Taming of the Shrew, discuss their characters and the play the...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Othello: Othello and Iago

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this video, Adrian Lester (Othello) and Rory Kinnear (Iago) talk about their characters and their relationship in the National Theatre's 2013 production of Shakespeare's Othello. [4:51]
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Tes: Performance Video: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014) Act 2, Scene 1

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company video clip features Valentino and his servant Speed in Act 2, Scene 1 of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. It's a good example of the use of comedic language in Shakespeare.
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Tes: Performance Video: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014) Act 4, Scene 2

9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company video clip from Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014) Act 4, Scene 2 is of Turio singing of his love for Silvia outside of her bedroom window. [2:10]
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Tes: Character Film: Falstaff Henry Iv Part 1 (2014)

9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video is actor Antony Sher who plays Sir John Falstaff describes his character in the Royal Shakespeare Company 2014 production of Henry IV [2:00]
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Tes: Video Story of Famous Victories of Henry v (Henry Iv I & Ii, Henry V)

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The cast of the play The Famous Victories of Henry V briefly tells the story of Henry V's battles in this Royal Shakespeare Company video. This could be used as an overview of 3 of Shakespeare's history...
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Tes: Character Film: Prince Hal Henry Iv Part 1 (2014)

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company video features Alex Hassell, who plays Prince Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV. He describes the character of Prince Hal who later becomes Henry V [1:34]
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Tes: Henry v (2015) Cinema Trailer: Excerpt From St Crispin's Day Speech

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a video trailer for the Royal Shakespeare Company 2015 production of Henry V in which Henry gives his St. Crispin's Day speech to bolster his troops before the Battle of Agincourt. [1:19]
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Tes: Macbeth: Interview With Justin Kurzel

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a short video interview with Justin Kurzel, director of Macbeth (2015) who discusses the play re-imagined as a western to engage with young people [1:16] The play is available to download at...
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Tes: The Merchant of Venice (2015) Filmed Synopsis

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Director Polly Findlay providing a video synopsis of The Merchant of Venice. [1:39]
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Tes: Directing the Dream Film With Erica Whyman

9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a short video of Erica Whyman describing the role of director and things to consider when directing a school play of A Midsummer Night's Dream. These include exploring the text, looking at the...
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Tes: The Role of Othello (2015) Film

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video is Hugh Quarshie discussing the character Othello in the Royal Shakespeare Company 2015 production of Othello. [1:07]
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Tes: Othello: The Role of Iago (2015) Film

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video clip is Lucian Msamati discussing the character Iago in the Royal Shakespeare Company 2015production of Othello. [0:58]
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Tes: Performance Video: Othello (2015) Act 3, Scene 3

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a video clip of Othello discussing with Iago his fear that Desdemona has been unfaithful. [2:47]
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Tes: English Lit Romeo and Juliet Germaine Greer

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a short video of Australian writer, Germaine Greer discussing the characters of Romeo and Juliet and posing the question "What's like to be 14?" [2:43]
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Tes: The Tempest: In School Visit With Rob Curry

9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a video interview of director Rob Curry's discussing his version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, a documentary about a group of young people from an East London as they stage the play. He explains...
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Tes: Gregory Doran Talks About His Production of Henry v (2015)

9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Gregory Doran talks about the Henry V as a play that is a barometer for how we feel about war, reflecting the political situation of the time. [1:37]
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Tes: The Tempest: Silent Shakespeare

9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 1908 silent film adaptation of The Tempest directed by Percy Stow, who used an innovative cinematic technique in which he tells the story in 11 scenes with descriptive title slides between...