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This programme comprises excerpts from King Lear, with an analysis of the role of the Fool.
This programme comprises excerpts from King Lear, with an analysis of the role of the Fool.
| Module code and title: | A201, Renaissance and Reformation |
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| Item code: | A201; 18 |
| First transmission date: | 11-10-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:10 |
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| Producer: | Richard Callanan |
| Contributor: | Cicely Palser Havely |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Drama; Shakespeare; Theatre |
| Footage description: | (Fool) 'That sir which serves... the fool no Knave, perdy' 1st excerpt. Cicely Havely discusses the role of the Fool in 'King Lear'. She links to the excerpt showing Fool as mentor. (Lear, Kent, Fool) 2nd excerpt Cicely Havely with stills from the excerpt and quotations from Shakespeare's text analysis the Fool's language and his licence. She introduces the next scene demonstrating another role of the Fool. (Fool, Lear) 3rd excerpt. Cicely Havely explains the preceding scene; she continues by speaking of the fool as clown and introduces Colin Blakely reciting excerpt from Robert Armin's 'Nest of ninnies'. Colin Blakely recites excerpt from Robert Armin: an exchange between Will Sommers and HenryVIII. Cicely Havely discusses the relationshipof Fool to Lear and introduces the next excerpt. (Kent, Fool) (Lear) 4th excerpt Cicely Havely discusses the preceding excerpt. (Fool: O Nuncle, count... men nor fools'. 5th excerpt. Cicely Havely briefly discusses the play as a whole (Fool: 'Prithee Nuncle, tell... gentleman before him.) Cicely Havely sums up. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/70608 |
| Production number: | 00521_2335 |
| Videofinder number: | 2508 |
| Available to public: | no |
