Shakespeare's Tragedies: Prof. Giordano ENG 302: Video and Audio

This program follows British drama students as they take on the project, rehearsing and performing Act II, Scene 2, from the play. Mentored by professionals, the players are able to fine-tune the rising sense of panic that eventually overcomes the protagonist and his manipulative wife. Their discussion afterwards further illuminates the marital dynamic that drives the story.

T full film of Rupert Goold’s Macbeth starring Sir Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood.

In this program, the major themes of Shakespeare’s most popular tragedy are investigated by noted experts.

The program consists of amusing talk show-style interviews with the main characters interspersed with scenes from the play itself, performed in deadly earnestness by professional Shakespearean actors in a black box theater. It was created by Drs. Jeremy Sabol and Greg Watkins, of Stanford University’s Program in Structured Liberal Education.