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The wait is over. John Barton's lectures on Playing Shakespeare featuring now world famous RSC actors, Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love, Iris), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler's List), and Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, Gods and Monsters), Patrick Stewart (X-Men, Star Trek: The Next Generation), and David Suchet (Agatha Christie's Poirot), and others, will now be available on DVD. The release date is scheduled for June 2 in the USA:

"Sit in on nine intensive acting workshops conducted by the legendary John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company. How does this world-renowned troupe make classic plays accessible to modern audiences, without compromising the text's integrity? How do actors search Shakespeare's verse for hidden clues to their characters' motivations? How do they balance intellect and passion to make theatre's most famous soliloquies seem fresh?"

The 4 disc, 456 minute set comes with:
o 20-page viewer's guide includes key points, discussion questions, avenues for further learning, a history of the RSC, and "Vocabulary of Verse and Stage."
o Actor biographies and RSC stage credits
o Exclusive web extras


PBS has a new streaming video portal at pbs.org/video. It is slick and easy to use, like Hulu.com (where, by the way, you will also find several PBS titles streaming in a commercial venue). Now much of the great quality programming heretofore available only by purchasing DVDs or using your Netflix account can be enjoyed free in streaming format online. Available programming includes American Experience, American Masters, FrontLine, NOVA, Great Performances, Masterpiece Classic, Nature, The NewsHour, and others. Users can browse by program or browse by topic.

It is now possible to own An Age of Kings, from BBC Warner. It is a 5-disc, 947 minute extravaganza, first telecast in the US in 1961 starring then largely unkown actors like Sean Connery, Judi Dench and Robert Hardy. The 75 minute episodes had such names as "The Hollow Crown," "The Band of Brothers," "Uneasy Lies the Head" and are truly memorable.

There has been a huge flap over a supposed authentication of the so-called Jansen portrait of Shakespeare. It turns out to be not so, but it is an interesting story. See my blog posts, Jansen Portrait Authentic?, and Shakespeare Portrait: Smoke, No Light, Portait Redux, and Shakespeare Portrait: The Empire (of experts) Strikes Back.