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Question: Do you think people's attitudes towards Shakespeare have changed over the forty years? Answer: Yes, I think it probably has. I think, I mean, huge resurgence of interest in Shakespeare I think for, I mean, let's make no mistake about this, I mean he, he's been hugely popular, but I believe, though I'm not entirely sure that there was a, a sort of, a Victorian resurrection as it were of Shakespeare, but that it was in the doldrums a bit for a few years. I'm not entirely sure that I'm speaking the truth, but I think the heyday of Jacobean and Elizabethan drama was probably extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary. It probably went through a slump and then there were more productions done in Victorian times than prior. And now, I mean you would be hard pushed to go into any city in the world without there being a Shakespeare production on somewhere in that city. And many, many amateur productions and much, much interest in him as a human. The fact that there is still a mystery about his real identity and the fact that this guy wrote words in such an extraordinary outburst of inspired language that gives you chilly bumps to this day and is probably as near to the core of human condition in all its manifestations: madness and love and pain and I mean just, it has just everything, everything, I mean I don't think he missed a thing. And I remember being so indebted to partly the RSC and partly to Shakespeare for a whole period of my life when I just thought, you know, it doesn't come any better than this Õ? to get paid to work with these people, to do this, this stuff, you know, it's just fantastic, absolutely fantasticÕ? and Õ? you know, there are Shakespeare productions that I would like to do. I would actually, actually quite like to direct a Shakespeare production. |
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DS_16_05_02 (2xmini DV tape) |
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This clip may be used for educational purposes only, any commercial use of this material requires permission from the copyright holders. Misuse or misrepresentation may result in legal action. Copyright holder: Christie Carson, COMPH, Royal Holloway University of London. |
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2 minutes 41.23 seconds |
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