Yesterday’s Actors
- Synopsis
- Edwin Burr Pettet from Brandeis University discusses styles of acting and parodies Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy as it might have been delivered by Alleyn, Garrick, Kemble, Irving, Leslie Howard and Marlon Brando. He concludes with an interpretation of how Shakespeare might have performed it.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of release
- 1962
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Availability
- No archive copy or distributor known (5/2011).
Credits
- Contributor
- E.B. Pettet
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Plays
- Hamlet
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- acting; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Source: Richard N. Albert, ‘An Annotated Guide to Audio-Visual Materials for Teaching Shakespeare’ in The English Journal, vol. 54. no. 8 (Nov. 1965), pp.704-715.
Production company unknown.
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Yesterday’s Actors". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av73359 (Accessed 21 Sep 2024)