UNDERSTANDING VIOLENCE
About The Authors
SHAKESPEARE ON VIOLENCE
Shakespeare had more to teach us about the human proclivity to kill others and ourselves than any other author. He was perhaps the greatest psychologist of all time.
Movies of Shakespeare Plays
Speeches from Shakespeare plays
The following are speeches from the play as featured in Holding a Mirror Up to Nature: Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare.
Hamlet
Richard III
King Lear
Macbeth
Merchant of Venice -Shylock
Laurence Olivier appeared in several classic movies on Shakespeare plays, including Hamlet, Richard III, and
Kenneth Branaugh directed a full length movie version of Hamlet starring himself. He also did a version of Much Ado About Nothing with Emma Thompson.
Orson Welles directed and starred in a remarkable Macbeth, a classic Chimes at Midnight (on Falstaff); and Othello.
The great Japanese director, Kurosawa, directed Throne of Blood, based on Macbeth, and Ran, based on King Lear.
Joel Coen directed Denzel Washington and Francis McDormand in the recent The Tragedy of Macbeth.
Complete Works of Shakespeare plays
Our Cambridge Shakespeare platform here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-shakespeare