This Rough Magic
A Peer-Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal
Dedicated to the Teaching of Medieval & Renaissance Literature
Dedicated to the Teaching of Medieval & Renaissance Literature
~John Barton & the RSC~
Video 5: Irony and Ambiguity
John Barton and the RSC ran nine workshops on Shakespeare and acting, and put these classes to film, in the 1980s. Hence, actor insight is married to scholarly approach and vice versa.
Video 5 of 9 (above) focuses on how Shakespeare works with irony - and how the actor may find the "irony" and/or "ambiguity" of a text, and use it to his or her advantage.
