Hamlet: The Age of Elizabeth

Duration: 33

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Coun for a TV Course in the Humanit

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: 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 I of Hamlet to raise the fundamental questions to be discussed later.

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