Shakespeare Master Class
Well, the conference is over and it was fantastic. We focused mostly on pedagogy today, so I felt a lot more in my element. We also talked about the changing nature of the canon. Yesterday we did a lot of 19th century historical analysis of Shakespeare instruction, which was fascinating, but made me feel like I had a lot of catching up to do. (And when I do that catching up, I now know to start here.)
Anyway, I’m still processing it all. I’ll probably blog more on the conference when I return to NYC, but until I get back, please enjoy this video. In line with the theme of the Shakespeare classroom, here are a very young Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie showing us how it’s done:
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
March 20th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Have you seriously really never seen BlackAdder? It just seems MADE for you. This exact segment is refined and done even more beautifully (again by Hugh Laurie – now playing the Prince Regent) in the Third series (British shows have 6 episodes a series/season). Local actors teach the Prince to give a speech. The episode is called Sense and Senility and also features a BRILLIANT parody of actors fear of the “curse” of Macbeth….
March 20th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Also – check THIS out (features Hugh Laurie as William Shakespeare and Blackadder’s Rowan Atkinson as a producer): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbB6B0cQs4&mode=related&search=
March 20th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
I agree with DeLisa’s BlackAdder recommendation; filled with brilliant acting and writing, gratuitous Shakespeare references in the first two series, and plenty of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry . . .
March 21st, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Yeah, I’ve seen Blackadder a few times The episodes I saw were from the season when Hugh Laurie was playing Prince George, and I liked them well enough. I must have missed the one with this skit.
At some point, I’m sure I’ll want to see all of them.
December 1st, 2013 at 3:03 pm
[…] Night, and I actually have much higher hopes for that production. Rylance will be playing Olivia. Stephen Fry, grievously underused in this production as an audience member sitting five rows ahead of me, will […]