"The Elizabethan Theatre": a lecture with slides

Designing Shakespeare

Royal Shakespeare Company

Shakespeare in Performance Institute Acting Exercises

Interactive Shakespeare Project

Shakespeare at Hampton Court

Touchstone: Shakespeare in Performance

Terry Gray's Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

SH:in:E

Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historica (1555)

Surfing with the Bard

Podcasts (allow several minutes for download)

Shakespeare for Today (55 minutes)

Professor Ronald Rebholtz, Stanford University, Reunion Homecoming 2004
http://itunes.stanford.edu/

Roundtable Discussion of Romeo and Juliet (50 minutes)

27 February 2006 Shenandoah Shakespeare
http://www.americanshakespearecenter.com/education/onShakespeare.html
http://americanshakespearecenter.blogspot.com/2006/02/blackfriars-backstage-pass-romeo-and.html

Macmorris, by John Morrison (46 minutes)

BBC Radio 4: "A comic fantasy about some of the minor characters in Shakespeare’s canon of plays who demand that their Creator write them better roles or they will destroy his universe.
This story takes place in a parallel world, a theatrical ether, which is populated by the characters in Shakespeare’s canon. Presiding over them all, godlike is their Creator, William Shakespeare.
Capt. Macmorris, a very minor character from Henry V with only one scene, is the only Irish character in the whole cannon and he is portrayed as a stereo typical Irish buffoon with a violent arrogant temper. This characterisation infuriates Macmorris. His dilemma is that he thinks he is real, a human being able to act for himself and that his nature can be changed. After 405 years trapped in this part, Macmorris he has decided that Shakespeare must give him deeper characterisation, better motivation and the chance to get the girl in the end. He enlists the help of the three other Captains in Henry V, Capt. Jamie, Capt. Fluellen and Capt. Gower and they go and confront their maker. Shakespeare throws them out and the ‘four musketeers’ resort to violent action. However they haven’t reckoned with the might of the immortal bard, William Shakespeare and his ally Iago who has spies everywhere." (3 October 2004)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/drama/productions/radio/missed.shtml

Here are the instructions for viewing the Class pages and video clips. You'll need a password from Dr. Regan: rjregan@mail.fairfield.edu

Streaming video is a part of the course because I've written classes to be interactive with excerpts from performances. You will need a broadband internet connection. Cable or DSL will work. Satellite is probably OK too. Dialup is too slow for video.

As you scroll down the course page, for each of the plays you will see a link called "Click." That will take you to the Class, and when you click on a video clip you will see a password box. The password will be given out in class, a security measure because the TEACH Act passed by Congress in 2002 allows only enrolled students to have access to copyrighted materials for educational purposes. Our method of streaming will open the clip on your computer in QuickTime, though if you are a Windows user RealPlayer may open it instead. QuickTime comes standard on Macs, and if you Windows users do not have it, you can download it (bundled with iTunes) from:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download.

These video clips are also available from iTunes U, together with audio podcasts of our classes and some documents for each play. The clips can be expanded to full screen. Documents can be viewed as .pdf files in iTunes, but the audio and video files can be synched to your iPod. If you are on the class roster, you have access through:

http://itunes.fairfield.edu

If you are a Windows user, you can get iTunes free at:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/