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Marguerite de Waal - Shakespeare Birthday Lecture 2023
The Makhanda Branch of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa hosts an annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture. On 11 April 2023, Marguerite de Waal (University of Pretoria) delivered an address at Amazwi South African Museum of Literature titled "'I knew her, Horatio': Performing Legacies in HAMLET 2021". De Waal was introduced by Trudi Adendorff.
published: 06 Jun 2023
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"Sorry, I can't talk about it." | FRANCE | MUBI
Led by #LéaSeydoux, #BrunoDumont’s #FRANCE mounts a hilarious assault on the rampancy of media culture and its insatiable consumers.
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published: 18 May 2023
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Margaret of Anjou: Shakespeare's 'She Wolf'?
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William Shakespeare named her ‘she-wolf’, but did Margaret of Anjou earn that title? It was once meant to be an insult – do we see it differently now? Let’s take a look…
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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "...
published: 17 Nov 2023
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"Downton Abbey" With American Accents Is Bizarre
Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and Allen Leech perform a scene from "Downton Abbey" using good ol' American accents, and it's unsettling.
published: 10 Dec 2015
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'To Marguerite - Continued' by Matthew Arnold
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A screencast of the poem 'To Marguerite - Continued' by Matthew Arnold, as part of CIE IGCSE English Literature.
published: 24 Mar 2015
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Queen Margaret strikes the Duchess of Gloucester - The Hollow Crown: Episode 1 - BBC Two
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Programme website: http://bbc.in/1T38n6X Queen Margaret (Sophie Okonedo) questions whether Henry VI (Tom Sturridge) needs a protector to govern for himself, ending in an angry power struggle with the Duchess of Gloucester (Sally Hawkins).
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published: 11 May 2016
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Shakespeare has 24 hours to reply 🤕
published: 20 Jan 2023
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TLW Roxton & Marguerite - Pieces of his heart
My new vid about the greatest Love Story forever. John and Marguerite.
published: 02 Mar 2009
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Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie
Explore the haunting and intimate works of poet Sylvia Plath, who digs into issues of mental health, trauma and sexuality in works like “The Bell Jar.”
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Under her shrewd eye and pen, Sylvia Plath turned everyday objects into haunting images: a “new statue in a drafty museum,” a shadow in a mirror, a slab of soap. Her breathtaking perspectives and unflinching language made her a touchstone for readers seeking to break the silence around issues of trauma, frustration and sexuality. Iseult Gillespie shares why Plath's writing continues to captivate.
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Sarah Saidan.
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published: 07 Mar 2019
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To Marguerite: Continued by Matthew Arnold
Read by Christopher Hurshman.
Originally published as "To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis" in Empedocles on Etna (1852).
Yes! in the sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
The islands feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.
But when the moon their hollows lights,
And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely sing;
And lovely notes, from shore to shore,
Across the sounds and channels pour—
Oh! then a longing like despair
Is to their farthest caverns sent;
For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a single continent!
Now round us spreads the watery plain—
Oh might our marges meet again!
Wh...
published: 13 Apr 2020
1:02:27
Marguerite de Waal - Shakespeare Birthday Lecture 2023
The Makhanda Branch of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa hosts an annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture. On 11 April 2023, Marguerite de Waal (University...
The Makhanda Branch of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa hosts an annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture. On 11 April 2023, Marguerite de Waal (University of Pretoria) delivered an address at Amazwi South African Museum of Literature titled "'I knew her, Horatio': Performing Legacies in HAMLET 2021". De Waal was introduced by Trudi Adendorff.
https://wn.com/Marguerite_De_Waal_Shakespeare_Birthday_Lecture_2023
The Makhanda Branch of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa hosts an annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture. On 11 April 2023, Marguerite de Waal (University of Pretoria) delivered an address at Amazwi South African Museum of Literature titled "'I knew her, Horatio': Performing Legacies in HAMLET 2021". De Waal was introduced by Trudi Adendorff.
- published: 06 Jun 2023
- views: 96
0:21
"Sorry, I can't talk about it." | FRANCE | MUBI
Led by #LéaSeydoux, #BrunoDumont’s #FRANCE mounts a hilarious assault on the rampancy of media culture and its insatiable consumers.
30 Days of Great Cinema Fr...
Led by #LéaSeydoux, #BrunoDumont’s #FRANCE mounts a hilarious assault on the rampancy of media culture and its insatiable consumers.
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Led by #LéaSeydoux, #BrunoDumont’s #FRANCE mounts a hilarious assault on the rampancy of media culture and its insatiable consumers.
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- published: 18 May 2023
- views: 475077
33:25
Margaret of Anjou: Shakespeare's 'She Wolf'?
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William Shakespeare named her ‘she-wol...
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William Shakespeare named her ‘she-wolf’, but did Margaret of Anjou earn that title? It was once meant to be an insult – do we see it differently now? Let’s take a look…
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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]
SFX from https://freesfx.co.uk/Default.aspx
Linked videos and playlists:
She-wolf playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnWtthsbeLjjp1aKPApg3XvwWH2gatndT
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
Capitoline Wolf sculpture with twins by an unknown artist (date contested). Held by the Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy.
Screenshot of OED: https://www.oed.com/dictionary/she-wolf_n?tab=meaning_and_use#99262329121
Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI (c.1445). Cropped image of File:Presentation of the Book of Romances.jpg, a scan of the manuscript illuminated by the Talbot Master (British Library, Royal 15 E VI, f. 2v)
The marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou is depicted in this miniature from an illustrated manuscript of Vigilles de Charles VII by Martial d'Auvergne (c.1484). Held by the Bubliothèque Nationale de France.
Presentation scene; detail of a miniature from BL Royal MS 15 E vi, f. 2v (the "Talbot Shrewsbury Book" (c,1445) is presented to Margaret of Anjou as she sits beside Henry VI). Held and digitised by the British Library.
Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown English artist (c.1540). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Detail from the frontispiece of the illuminated manuscript Talbot Shrewsbury Book. In this detail Richard of York is shown supporting a giant fleur-de-lys, tracing the ancestry of Henry VI back to Saint Louis IX and justifying Henry's claim to the kingdom of France (between 1443 and 1445). Held by the British Library, Royal 15 E VI f2v.
Relief map of England (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:England_relief_location_map.jpg)
Portrait of King Edward IV by an unknown English artist (c.1540). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, submits to the queen of their Lancastrian enemies, Margaret of Anjou engraved by James William Edmund Doyle (1864). From "Edward IV" in A Chronicle of England: B.C. 55 – A.D. 1485, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, pp. p. 417
The Battle of Tewkesbury, as illustrated in the Ghent manuscript (late 15th century). Image scanned from: Cheetham, Anthony (1992) [1972] The Life and Times of Richard III (General edition (hardcover) ed.), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. p. 66 ISBN: 0-297-99573-1.
The illuminated representation of Queen Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI, here reproduced, is entered in the roll of the fraternity of Our Lady under date XV year of King Edward IV (A.D. 1475). From the the Books of the Skinners Company. A. D. 1422.
Quoted texts:
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3: Act I, Scene iv
Diana Dunn, ODNB entry on Margaret of Anjou
Also consulted, were:
Lauren Johnson, “Shadow King” https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41447564
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
#SheWolf #History #WarsOfTheRoses
https://wn.com/Margaret_Of_Anjou_Shakespeare's_'She_Wolf'
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William Shakespeare named her ‘she-wolf’, but did Margaret of Anjou earn that title? It was once meant to be an insult – do we see it differently now? Let’s take a look…
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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]
SFX from https://freesfx.co.uk/Default.aspx
Linked videos and playlists:
She-wolf playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnWtthsbeLjjp1aKPApg3XvwWH2gatndT
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
Capitoline Wolf sculpture with twins by an unknown artist (date contested). Held by the Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy.
Screenshot of OED: https://www.oed.com/dictionary/she-wolf_n?tab=meaning_and_use#99262329121
Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI (c.1445). Cropped image of File:Presentation of the Book of Romances.jpg, a scan of the manuscript illuminated by the Talbot Master (British Library, Royal 15 E VI, f. 2v)
The marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou is depicted in this miniature from an illustrated manuscript of Vigilles de Charles VII by Martial d'Auvergne (c.1484). Held by the Bubliothèque Nationale de France.
Presentation scene; detail of a miniature from BL Royal MS 15 E vi, f. 2v (the "Talbot Shrewsbury Book" (c,1445) is presented to Margaret of Anjou as she sits beside Henry VI). Held and digitised by the British Library.
Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown English artist (c.1540). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Detail from the frontispiece of the illuminated manuscript Talbot Shrewsbury Book. In this detail Richard of York is shown supporting a giant fleur-de-lys, tracing the ancestry of Henry VI back to Saint Louis IX and justifying Henry's claim to the kingdom of France (between 1443 and 1445). Held by the British Library, Royal 15 E VI f2v.
Relief map of England (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:England_relief_location_map.jpg)
Portrait of King Edward IV by an unknown English artist (c.1540). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, submits to the queen of their Lancastrian enemies, Margaret of Anjou engraved by James William Edmund Doyle (1864). From "Edward IV" in A Chronicle of England: B.C. 55 – A.D. 1485, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, pp. p. 417
The Battle of Tewkesbury, as illustrated in the Ghent manuscript (late 15th century). Image scanned from: Cheetham, Anthony (1992) [1972] The Life and Times of Richard III (General edition (hardcover) ed.), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. p. 66 ISBN: 0-297-99573-1.
The illuminated representation of Queen Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI, here reproduced, is entered in the roll of the fraternity of Our Lady under date XV year of King Edward IV (A.D. 1475). From the the Books of the Skinners Company. A. D. 1422.
Quoted texts:
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3: Act I, Scene iv
Diana Dunn, ODNB entry on Margaret of Anjou
Also consulted, were:
Lauren Johnson, “Shadow King” https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41447564
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
#SheWolf #History #WarsOfTheRoses
- published: 17 Nov 2023
- views: 17670
2:26
"Downton Abbey" With American Accents Is Bizarre
Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and Allen Leech perform a scene from "Downton Abbey" using good ol' American accents, and it's unsettling.
Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and Allen Leech perform a scene from "Downton Abbey" using good ol' American accents, and it's unsettling.
https://wn.com/Downton_Abbey_With_American_Accents_Is_Bizarre
Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and Allen Leech perform a scene from "Downton Abbey" using good ol' American accents, and it's unsettling.
- published: 10 Dec 2015
- views: 12056166
21:45
'To Marguerite - Continued' by Matthew Arnold
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Please watch: "How to PRONOUNCE the /æ/(ae) phoneme CORRECTLY...
Wanting to improve your pronunciation QUICKLY? Check out my latest video on the /æ/ (ae) phoneme!
Please watch: "How to PRONOUNCE the /æ/(ae) phoneme CORRECTLY!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8NFtDGR6So --~--
A screencast of the poem 'To Marguerite - Continued' by Matthew Arnold, as part of CIE IGCSE English Literature.
https://wn.com/'To_Marguerite_Continued'_By_Matthew_Arnold
Wanting to improve your pronunciation QUICKLY? Check out my latest video on the /æ/ (ae) phoneme!
Please watch: "How to PRONOUNCE the /æ/(ae) phoneme CORRECTLY!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8NFtDGR6So --~--
A screencast of the poem 'To Marguerite - Continued' by Matthew Arnold, as part of CIE IGCSE English Literature.
- published: 24 Mar 2015
- views: 17252
2:52
Queen Margaret strikes the Duchess of Gloucester - The Hollow Crown: Episode 1 - BBC Two
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Programme website: http://bbc.in/1T38n6X Queen Margaret (Sophie Okonedo) questions whether Henry VI (Tom Sturridge) needs a protector to govern for himself, ending in an angry power struggle with the Duchess of Gloucester (Sally Hawkins).
#bbc
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https://wn.com/Queen_Margaret_Strikes_The_Duchess_Of_Gloucester_The_Hollow_Crown_Episode_1_BBC_Two
Subscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSub
Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Programme website: http://bbc.in/1T38n6X Queen Margaret (Sophie Okonedo) questions whether Henry VI (Tom Sturridge) needs a protector to govern for himself, ending in an angry power struggle with the Duchess of Gloucester (Sally Hawkins).
#bbc
All our TV channels and S4C are available to watch live through BBC iPlayer, although some programmes may not be available to stream online due to rights. If you would like to read more on what types of programmes are available to watch live, check the 'Are all programmes that are broadcast available on BBC iPlayer?' FAQ 👉 https://bbc.in/2m8ks6v.
- published: 11 May 2016
- views: 744513
4:08
TLW Roxton & Marguerite - Pieces of his heart
My new vid about the greatest Love Story forever. John and Marguerite.
My new vid about the greatest Love Story forever. John and Marguerite.
https://wn.com/Tlw_Roxton_Marguerite_Pieces_Of_His_Heart
My new vid about the greatest Love Story forever. John and Marguerite.
- published: 02 Mar 2009
- views: 1961
4:46
Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie
Explore the haunting and intimate works of poet Sylvia Plath, who digs into issues of mental health, trauma and sexuality in works like “The Bell Jar.”
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Und...
Explore the haunting and intimate works of poet Sylvia Plath, who digs into issues of mental health, trauma and sexuality in works like “The Bell Jar.”
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Under her shrewd eye and pen, Sylvia Plath turned everyday objects into haunting images: a “new statue in a drafty museum,” a shadow in a mirror, a slab of soap. Her breathtaking perspectives and unflinching language made her a touchstone for readers seeking to break the silence around issues of trauma, frustration and sexuality. Iseult Gillespie shares why Plath's writing continues to captivate.
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Sarah Saidan.
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https://wn.com/Why_Should_You_Read_Sylvia_Plath_Iseult_Gillespie
Explore the haunting and intimate works of poet Sylvia Plath, who digs into issues of mental health, trauma and sexuality in works like “The Bell Jar.”
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Under her shrewd eye and pen, Sylvia Plath turned everyday objects into haunting images: a “new statue in a drafty museum,” a shadow in a mirror, a slab of soap. Her breathtaking perspectives and unflinching language made her a touchstone for readers seeking to break the silence around issues of trauma, frustration and sexuality. Iseult Gillespie shares why Plath's writing continues to captivate.
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Sarah Saidan.
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- published: 07 Mar 2019
- views: 2114777
1:14
To Marguerite: Continued by Matthew Arnold
Read by Christopher Hurshman.
Originally published as "To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis" in Empedocles on Etna (1852).
Yes! in the...
Read by Christopher Hurshman.
Originally published as "To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis" in Empedocles on Etna (1852).
Yes! in the sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
The islands feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.
But when the moon their hollows lights,
And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely sing;
And lovely notes, from shore to shore,
Across the sounds and channels pour—
Oh! then a longing like despair
Is to their farthest caverns sent;
For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a single continent!
Now round us spreads the watery plain—
Oh might our marges meet again!
Who order'd, that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd?
Who renders vain their deep desire?—
A God, a God their severance ruled!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.
Image: Landscape of two islands at golden hour, unsplash.com.
https://wn.com/To_Marguerite_Continued_By_Matthew_Arnold
Read by Christopher Hurshman.
Originally published as "To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis" in Empedocles on Etna (1852).
Yes! in the sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
The islands feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.
But when the moon their hollows lights,
And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely sing;
And lovely notes, from shore to shore,
Across the sounds and channels pour—
Oh! then a longing like despair
Is to their farthest caverns sent;
For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a single continent!
Now round us spreads the watery plain—
Oh might our marges meet again!
Who order'd, that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd?
Who renders vain their deep desire?—
A God, a God their severance ruled!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.
Image: Landscape of two islands at golden hour, unsplash.com.
- published: 13 Apr 2020
- views: 1726