View a version of one of the plays that we have read. You can select the version you wish (cite the
source of the version). Complete a two-page paper comparing the reading with the video version. (1) Pick
three scenes from the film and compare/contrast them with the text version (provide textual support); and,
(2) Give your overall, interpretation of both. Which did you find more effective and why?
Title
A Midsummer night’s dream [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures and Regency Enterprises ; directed
and screenplay by Michael Hoffman ; produced by Leslie Urdang and Michael Hoffman.
Imprint
Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c1999.
Descr.
1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number
MEDIA VH 4891 -Lib&Class Only
Variant title
William Shakespeare’s A midsummer night’s dream
Participant
Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Tucci, Christian Bale, Sophie
Marceau, David Strathairn.
Title
The rise of Greek tragedy. [Videorecording] : Sophocles, Oedipus the king / Films for the Humanities.
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, c1975.
Descr.
1 cassette, 45 min. : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Series
( The history of drama.)
Call Number
MEDIA VH 584 -Lib&Class Only
Participant
Voices, James Mason, Claire Bloom, Ian Richardson, Gary Bond, Anthony Quayle; performers, Athens
Classical Theatre Company.
Abstract
A presentation of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, performed in the authentic setting of a fifth-century Greek theater, with the use of masks made after ancient models. Shows how this drama developed from primeval
sacrificial ceremonies to Dionysius.
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