Understanding Shakespeare - His Sources

Year Published: 1971

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows how Shakespeare's plays grew out of the many elements available to him. Focuses on Shakespeare at home, school, great houses of the nobility, and in London mixing with the Roughes elements. Depicts Shakespeare searching libraries, watching plays of rival authors and visiting the Commedia del Arte. Presents excerpts from big plays whose origins can be traced to the sources previously described.

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