Film: The Angelic Conversation (1985, Derek Jarman)

The Angelic Conversation
(1985)

Info Links:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088722/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angelic_Conversation_(film)
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/441285/

Visionary filmmaker Derek Jarman juxtaposes dreamlike imagery with 14 Shakespeare sonnets, as read by Judi Dench, to celebrate the love affair between two men.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/124548547/TheAngelicConversation.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/124551638/TheAngelicConversation.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/124554515/TheAngelicConversation.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/124557385/TheAngelicConversation.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/124560284/TheAngelicConversation.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/124563101/TheAngelicConversation.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/124563600/TheAngelicConversation.part8.rar

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Audio: The Reduced Shakespeare Company Radio Show - 3 Volumes

The Reduced Shakespeare Company Radio Show

The RSC Radio Show was a 6 part (half hour each) radio show commissioned and aired by the BBC in England.

Volume 1: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet
Volume 2: The Histories and The Tragedies
Volume 3: The Comedies and Shakespeare's Little Known Trip to America

Synopsis:

The Reduced Shakespeare Company was born in 1981 when three young men who misspent their youth watching cartoons began performing half-hour versions of "Hamlet" in the streets of San Francisco. In a style that equals parts Marx Brothers and Three Stooges, the trio delivers (in their abridged entirety) "Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Histories, The Tragedies, The Comedies" and a special bonus, "Shakespeare's Little Known Trip to America".

Review:

Did Romeo and Juliet have premarital sex? Did Hamlet have an edible complex (as documented by numerous food references in the play)? The Reduced Shakespeare Company asks this and more. This tape, originally produced for the BBC, will find a devoted audience among PDQ Bach fans. Despite all the bells and whistles, three American actors have an uncanny knack for picking out the crucial words in each play. Favourite Shakespeare, partially reliant on a poll conducted by Classic FM magazine, is extremely well abridged. The editors contend that the best way to understand Shakespeare is through his people. Beginning with the seven ages of man, these tapes do the delicate job of uniting the bard's men and women into one tragicomic whole. Six actors and actresses read from the plays, while interspersed sonnets offer more personal views of the writer's thoughts and theories. These are well narrated, with extremely cogent commentary by John Brunning. Neither of these tapes should be allowed near an academic library, but both will hopefully find homes in public, if antipodal, audio collections. -Rochelle Ratner, formerly with "Soho Weekly News," New York

All 3 volumes complete in 1 rar file:
http://rapidshare.com/files/126600108/ReducedShakesRadio.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/126607861/ReducedShakesRadio.part2.rar

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Music: Rebellion - Shakespeare's Macbeth - A Tragedy In Steel (2002)

Rebellion
Shakespeare's Macbeth - A Tragedy In Steel
(2002)

This is Macbeth interpreted by a heavy metal band. Not my musical taste, but interesting.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/57598672/Rebellion_-_2002_-_Shakespeare_s_Macbeth_-_A_Tragedy_In_Steel.rar

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eBook: Shakespeare's Friends

Shakespeare's Friends
by Kate Emery Pogue

208 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

Shakespeare, more than any other writer in the western world, based much of his work on the consequences of friendship. Given the value placed on friends in his writing, many readers have wondered about the role friendship played in his own life. This work gives readers the chance to learn more about Shakespeare's friends, who they were and what they can tell us about Shakespeare and his times. For instance, Richard Field was a boyhood friend with whom Shakespeare went to school in Stratford. Field became a well-known London printer. The details of Field's life illuminate both the details of Shakespeare's boyhood education and the poet's relationship with the printing, publishing, and book-selling world in London. Francis Collins, a lawyer who represented Shakespeare in a number of legal dealings, drafted both versions of Shakespeare's will. This life-long friend was one of the last men eve to see Shakespeare pick up a pen to write. Through these vivid and animated sketches, readers will come to know about Shakespeare's life and times. While the book has a lively, accessible narrative tone within chapters, its organization and features make it highly useful to the school library market as well as the academic world. It contains cross references, a detailed Table of Contents and a highly organized structure with uniformity across sections and chapters. The writing is accessible and could be easily used by upper-level high school students looking to augment school assignments.

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ebook: The Mind According to Shakespeare: Psychoanalysis in the Bard's Writing -Krims

The Mind According to Shakespeare: Psychoanalysis in the Bard's Writing
by Marvin Bennett Krims

240 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

Dr. Krims, a psychoanalyst for more than three decades, takes readers into the sonnets and characters of Shakespeare and unveils the Bard's talent for illustrating psychoanalytical issues. These "hidden" aspects of the characters are one reason they feel real and, thus, have such a powerful effect, explains Krims. In exploring Shakespeare's characters, readers may also learn much about their own inner selves. In fact, Krims explains in one chapter how reading Shakespeare and other works helped him resolve his own inner conflicts. Topics of focus include Prince Hal's aggression, Hotspur's fear of femininity, Hamlet's frailty, Romeo's childhood trauma and King Lear's inability to grieve. In one essay, Krims offers a mock psychoanalysis of Beatrice from Much Ado about Nothing. All of the essays look at the unconscious motivations of Shakespeare's characters, and, in doing so, both challenge and extend common understandings of his texts.

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eBook: Shakespeare, Love and Service by David Schalkwyk

Shakespeare, Love and Service
by David Schalkwyk

Cambridge University Press | Pages: 336 | 2008 | ISBN: 0521886392 | 2 MB | PDF

Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the governing idea of this book. In an analysis that includes Shakespeare's sonnets and a wide range of his plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale, David Schalkwyk looks at the ways in which the personal, affective relations of love are informed by the social, structural interactions of service. Showing that service is not a 'class' concept, but rather determined the fundamental conditions of identity across the whole society, the book explores the inter-penetration of structure and affect in relationships as varied as monarch and subject, aristocrat and personal servant, master and slave, husband and wife, and lover and beloved, in the light of differences of rank, gender and sexual identity.

http://rapidshare.com/files/126679616/ShakespeareLoveService.rar

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