Becket, Godot, Existence

Beckett directs Beckett:
Waiting for Godot Parts 1 and 2




Waiting for Godot, on film (part 1):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXmdTUfsfmI


What Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart have to say about acting in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyKnLGT74TQ














Play (directed by Anthony Minghella):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2QJ0FYE3pw


Endgame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7Vc3jczNg

Modernism context: Jazz

How Jazz made itself up as it went along - 'just like the country that gave it birth':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so9XM65vGn8


And this, while it's on iplayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b017nf05/gershwins-summertime-the-song-that-conquered-the-world

Why read?

Wonderful summary of the best bits of Susan Sontag's extensive essays on how and why to read, and write, seriously:


http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/30/susan-sontag-writing-storytelling-at-the-same-time/

Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth

Here's where she finds out about the witches' prophecy. What tricks does she use on her husband when he first comes home?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xHlngY6Bgk


Here's a bit later, where Macbeth says he's changed his mind. What tricks does she use on him NOW?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAAnAB3A3PQ

Shakespeare and the Metaphysical poets: A04

How Marvell's contemporaries made sense of both the tangible and intangible world around them.


http://crossref-it.info/articles/category/5/the-world-of-shakespeare-and-the-metaphysical-poets-1540-1660

Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self

MUST WATCH: Century of the Self, part 1:
https://vimeo.com/111346364


COULD WATCH: Parts 2, 3 and 4.


If you like this guy as much as I do, look up his other mind-blowing films:


The Power of Nightmares


All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace


Bitter Lake


The Trap: What Happened to our Dream of Freedom?




He's got a blog here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis

Wider reading on the Tempest

Lecture on the Tempest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoZClxzMjr4 - skip first few mins until introduction is over.


Full movie with Prospero as a woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOxYMKH_URI


Get hold of this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0192802496 and read Germaine Greer's summary of the Tempest - very useful.
   


Also watch Prospero's books - Greenaway's bonkers adaptation - if you can find it.