23 Things: Oxford

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Case Studies In Innovative Practice

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Laura Wilkinson and Penny Schenk, librarians at the University of Oxford and members of the 23 Things Oxford Team, talk about their blog-based training programme to teach Web 2.0 skills to Oxford librarians.

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Case Studies In Innovative Practice

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Laura Wilkinson

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Online Presence

Department: IT Services

Date Added: 24/08/2012

Duration: 00:06:32

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Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott

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Interviews on Great Writers

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Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world.

By using biographical and historical detail to support his analysis of some of Cesaire and Walcott's key texts, Allen offers insight into what it means to be a Caribbean writer - looking back to a colonial past, and forward to a global future.

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Interviews on Great Writers

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Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Date Added: 24/08/2012

Duration: 00:39:02

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The language of Shakespeare

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Staging Shakespeare

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Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student production of the Shakespeare play - Two Gentlemen of Verona. They discuss some of the challenges of the text and what they have done to overcome these.

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Staging Shakespeare

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Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Date Added: 23/08/2012

Duration: 00:05:52

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Understanding Shakespeare

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The actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it for his role in the student production of the Shakespeare play Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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Date Added: 23/08/2012

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Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director

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The director talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. She describes what makes the play great, and discusses issues related to editing and direction.

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Date Added: 23/08/2012

Duration: 00:03:43

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The Tempest: For you am I this patient log-man

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The director and actors talk about the log-scene in The Tempest and how they interpret and perform it. Includes scenes from rehearsals and performance.

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Date Added: 23/08/2012

Duration: 00:05:40

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The Tempest: Our revels now are ended

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The famous Shakespeare scene from The Tempest, performed by actors from an Oxford student drama society.

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Date Added: 23/08/2012

Duration: 00:01:11

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The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Conveying Shakespeare's meaning

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The actor Dylan Townley talks about the language of Shakespeare. He describes how understanding and using the meter can help an actor or reader to bring out the poetry in a text. Includes a scene from The Tempest.

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Date Added: 23/08/2012

Duration: 00:03:27

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The Tempest: Prospero

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Actor Dylan Townley talks with director Archie Cornish about the character Prospero. They describe how they have chosen to portray him in this Oxford student performance of The Tempest, and discuss on what they base their interpretation.

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Date Added: 23/08/2012

Duration: 00:04:21

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The Tempest: Direction and interpretation

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Director Archie Cornish and actor Dylan Townley - Prospero - talk about adapting, directing and performing a student Shakespeare production of The Tempest.

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Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Date Added: 23/08/2012

Duration: 00:05:15

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