Shakespeare and Kurosawa Video Links

MACBETH

Macbeth

Shakespeare online: Macbeth (a good source for scholarly analysis of Shakespeare; the scholarship is all past copyright)

Macbeth: Themes and Quotes from the Scottish Play

Macbeth: Thug Notes Summary and Analysis

Ian McKellen, "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" Master Class

Stephen Fye and Hugh Laurie, "Shakespeare Master Class" (parody)

The Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) on the superstition of not mentioning "The Scottish Play." He is playing a butler in this scene; Hugh Laurie is playing the lord.

Harvard Professor Marjorie Garber's lecture on Shakespeare After All:Macbeth (2 hours long but well worth listening to)

Star Wars Macbeth

Youtube search for Macbeth

Chinese translation of Macbeth

 

KING LEAR

Texts and guides:

King Lear online text

Thug Notes on King Lear (2 minute summary)

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All: King Lear (2 hour lecture)

Chinese translation of King Lear

Videos of performances

Link to videos of Ian McKellen version in 2008 and James Earl Jones version in 1974

McKellen (2008)

James Earl Jones (1974)

Ian McKellen, Understanding Lear (10 min)

National Theater trailer for King Lear with Simon Beale (directed by Sam Mendes)

National Theater list of videos on directing/acting King Lear

Philip Winchester as Edmund, part 1 (2008)

Philip Winchester as Edmund, part 2 (2008)

Staging Act 3 Sc 2 "Blow winds" scene (three different stagings)

Staging Shakespeare: Goneril and Regan

Staging Shakespeare: "Mend your speech a little"

Staging Shakespeare: Edgar and Edmund fight

Shakespeare online: King Lear

 

Collection of links to youtube videos about King Lear

 

 

GENERAL ON SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare-online.com: one of the better online resources for Shakespeare, including line by line annotations, soliloquy and character analysis, and links to older academic essays that are past copyright. It also includes numerous links to other resources at the bottom of the main page for each play, as well as along the side.

 

GENERAL RESOURCES ON RHETORICAL IMAGERY

Literary-Devices.com

 

KUROSAWA

Summer of Shakespeare: Throne of Blood: Noh Shakespeare, No Problem

Kurosawa and Geometric Style (by Tony Chou)

Kurosawa and Movement (by Tony Chou)

Analysis of the Arrow Scene

Frame by frame analysis of the Arrow Scene

Summer of Shakespeare: Ran The Shakespearian Apocalypse

Throne of Blood (download)

Ran (download)

 

VIDEO CLIPS AND IMAGES FROM NOH THEATER

Noh intro: Tradition of Performing Arts in Japan: Noh

Full performance of Adachigahara/Kurozuka without subtitles

Adachigahara/Kurozuka images

Yamamba images

Selection of clips; first one is final battle from Atsumori, second from Aoi no Ue

Tamura clip

Yashima images

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION ON SHAKESPEARE AND GLOBAL SHAKESPEARES

Shakespeare in Asia: collaborative, multilingual online archive of performance materials related to Shakespeare in East and Southeast Asia.

Global Shakespeares: The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.

Shakespeare in Japan: Deguchi Norio A Midsummer's Night Dream: Information on an adaptation of Midsummer's Night Dream by the director Deguchi Norio. Seems to be a cd-rom that has been uploaded to the internet, possibly used for a course at Stanford, but no identifying info on who put it together.

Folger Shakespeare Library: Website of the research center in Washington, DC. Resources on Shakespeare's works, life, theater; plus podcasts on various aspects of Shakespeare scholarship and performance.

The Shakespeare Revue: Includes numerous reviews of productions of Shakespeare, globally. And a very extensive links page.

ShakespeareMag.com: Educational and learning resources about the works of Shakespeare.