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Literature Today - and Yesterday...
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The opening lines of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge,as quoted in Xanadu 1980,Robert Greenwald
Make of this what you will (!) but know that man is none other than Gene Kelly in his final film role...
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"The winter of discontent" Shakespeare Richard III Soliloquy at a urinal! (Richard Loncraine, 1995)
Просмотров 139Месяц назад
Unexpected and abrupt change of scenery where Richard is offering us the famous "Now is the winter of our discontent” speech relocate from the grand setting of a radio address from the palace to the slightly less salubrious setting of a row of gent's urinals.
![Disabled by Wilfred Owen (from Benediction [2021] by Terence Davies)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wbye1oP8Zhk/mqdefault.jpg)
Disabled by Wilfred Owen (from Benediction [2021] by Terence Davies)
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Disabled by Wilfred Owen He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, Voices of play and pleasure after day, Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him. * * * * * About this time Town used to swing so gay When glow-lamps budded in the light-blue trees, And gir...
Henry V 1989 by Kenneth Branagh, Clip 'O Kate, we are the makers of manners...'
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The Image: That huge chamber; the crowns; the regalia; the new woven flag representing the dual monarchy of England and France - the notion of Great Kings being the 'makers of manners'. It's all here... I love this clip. (Though obviously very politically incorrect - having a beautiful young princess being delivered as part of the spoils of war!) When Branagh smilingly advises Kate: 'Take me/Ta...
Henry V 1989 by Kenneth Branagh, Clip: Derek Jacobi as Chorus - O for a muse of fire ...
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The film begins with Chorus, in this case a person in modern dress, introducing the subject of the play. He is walking through an empty film studio and ends his monologue by opening the doors to begin the main action. Chorus reappears several times during the film, his speeches helping to explain and progress the action.
![as it grew dark [ref-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte] (1983) composed by Paul Lansky](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uaxh96w2yqU/mqdefault.jpg)
as it grew dark [ref-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte] (1983) composed by Paul Lansky
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[I am incredibly honoured that eminent American composer, Paul Lansky himself has personally given me permission to use his audio and has even said that my video is 'lovely' (!)] This video is based on Paul Lansky's astonishing electronic rendering of a passage from Jane Eyre where Jane is explaining to Mr Rochester a Gothic-type dream she has experienced that seems to foretell the destruction ...
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot-Terence Davies recites lines from East Coker (Of Time and the City 2008)
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Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot-Terence Davies recites lines from East Coker (Of Time and the City 2008)
Cargoes by John Masefield- as taught by Christopher Eccleston in Hearts and Minds (TV series) - 1995
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'Cargoes' Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores, With a cargo of diamonds, Emeralds, amethysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores. Dirty British coaste...
Henryk Szpilman quotes from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (The Pianist by Roman Polanski)
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Name Journeys by Raman Mundair (AQA 'Worlds and Lives' cluster)
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You heard it here first - as featured in the new AQA poetry cluster Worlds and Lives. For educational purposes only. Non monetized channel. Please contact me by leaving a message if there are any copyright issues!
On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria (1955) by James Berry (AQA 'Worlds and Lives' cluster)
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You heard it here first - as featured in the new AQA poetry cluster Worlds and Lives. On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 (1995) by by James Berry Hello, she said, and startled me. Nice day. Nice day I agreed. I am a Quaker she said and Sunday I was moved in silence to speak a poem loudly for racial brotherhood. I was thoughtful, then said what poem came on like that? One the mo...
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas from Interstellar 2014 by Christopher Nolan
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green b...
Ulysses by Tennyson as quoted by M (Judy Dench) in Skyfall (2012) by Sam Mendes
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We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
‘Spring Morning’ By A. A. Milne (from Kindergarten Cop (1990) by Ivan Reitman)
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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You’d lean on the wind when the wind came by. You’d say to the wind when it took you away, That’s where I wanted to go today! Where am I going? I don’t quite know, What does it matter where people go? Down to the wood where the bluebells grow, Anywhere, anywhere, I don’t know.
‘I Go Back to May 1937’ by Sharon Olds (from Into The Wild (2007) by Sean Penn)
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I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges, I see my father strolling out under the ochre sandstone arch, the red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood behind his head, I see my mother with a few light books at her hip standing at the pillar made of tiny bricks, the wrought-iron gate still open behind her, its sword-tips aglow in the May air, they are about to graduate, they a...
The Caretaker - Harold Pinter (1963) by Clive Donner, Clip:Mick, Mac and Aston discuss the bucket
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The Caretaker - Harold Pinter (1963) by Clive Donner, Clip:Mick, Mac and Aston discuss the bucket
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) by Joel Coen, Clip: Malcolm & Donalbain flee after Duncan is murdered
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The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) by Joel Coen, Clip: Malcolm & Donalbain flee after Duncan is murdered
The Murder of Lidice - Edna St. Vincent Millay-from Hitler's Madman (1943) by Douglas Sirk - ending
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The Murder of Lidice - Edna St. Vincent Millay-from Hitler's Madman (1943) by Douglas Sirk - ending
The Murder of Lidice - Edna St. Vincent Millay-from Hitler's Madman (1943) by Douglas Sirk-beginning
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The Murder of Lidice - Edna St. Vincent Millay-from Hitler's Madman (1943) by Douglas Sirk-beginning
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) by Peter Jackson:Enlisting soldiers words-& famous propaganda posters
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They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) by Peter Jackson:Enlisting soldiers words-& famous propaganda posters
In Praise of Limestone by W H Auden (Read by W H Auden)
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In Praise of Limestone by W H Auden (Read by W H Auden)
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death by WB Yeats - read by Shane MacGowan
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An Irish Airman Foresees his Death by WB Yeats - read by Shane MacGowan
Withnail and I (1987) by Bruce Robinson, Clip: The Hamlet speech...
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Withnail and I (1987) by Bruce Robinson, Clip: The Hamlet speech...
'If We Must Die' by Claude Mckay - Claude Mckay introduces and reads his poem...
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'If We Must Die' by Claude Mckay - Claude Mckay introduces and reads his poem...
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams (from The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Josh Boone)
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The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams (from The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Josh Boone)
A. E. Housman - The Time you Won your Town the Race (From 'Out of Africa', 1985)
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A. E. Housman - The Time you Won your Town the Race (From 'Out of Africa', 1985)
"The quality of mercy" speech by Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) by Michael Radford
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"The quality of mercy" speech by Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) by Michael Radford
The Birthday Party (1968 - by William Friedkin) Clip: Ending - "Don't let them tell you what to do"
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The Birthday Party (1968 - by William Friedkin) Clip: Ending - "Don't let them tell you what to do"
Charles Bukowski - Friendly advice to a lot of young men
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Charles Bukowski - Friendly advice to a lot of young men