Hamlet I: the Age of Elizabeth

Duration: 12:00

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation

Color: color

Description: In this series, Maynard Mack, of Yale University, discusses various aspects of Hamlet. Dramatized scenes are performed by the Stratford Shakespearean Festival Company of Canada. This part reviews the events preceding the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and studies her personality and its effect upon English life of the period. Recounts, briefly, Shakespeare's life, the tastes of his theater audiences, and the effect that the differences in stage structure between a theater like the Globe and a modern stage have upon the playwright's selection of techniques. Concludes by presenting Act I, Scene 1, of Hamlet to raise the fundamental questions to be discussed later.

Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)