Listen to Professor Mark Thornton Burnett explaining why we can watch Shakespeare's films in other languages
Professor Mark Thornton Burnett explaining why people should not be dissuaded from watching translations of Shakespeare's works, because though he wrote exclusively in English, the stories, conflicts, and emotions are retained across cultures.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Learn about the controversy of identifying the first novel in history.
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Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn about the First Folio edition (1623) of William Shakespeare's plays and its allure for collectors and scholars. In addition, take a look at the Hinman collator, a machine originally developed to help scholars detect minute differences between copies of the First Folio.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Clifton Fadiman examines the inspiration Charles Dickens's work took from the milieu of Victorian England, with its startling contrasts of morality and hypocrisy, splendor and squalor, prosperity and poverty. This video is a 1962 production of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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© Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn how Odysseus (or Ulysses) has been portrayed in literature, art, and cinema.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.How did Gatsby become so…great?
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Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)A brief discussion of the King James Bible's influence on English literature.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.“Tell me, Muse…”Media Editors: Meg Matthias , Lee Goldstein
