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Chapters: Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea, James Nesbitt, Ciarán Hinds, Michael Legge, Laura Pyper, Patrick Magee, Colin Morgan, John Lynch, Conleth Hill, Colin Blakely, Jayne Wisener, Gerald Home, Siobhán Mckenna, Martin Mccann, Laura Donnelly, Harry Towb, Tara Lynne O'neill, Marie Jones, Michelle Fairley, Michael Colgan, Conor Macneill, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Olivia Nash. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 124. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Nesbitt (born 15 January 1965) is a Northern Irish actor. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher, like his father, so began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994). He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991). Nesbitt got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet (ITV, 19982003), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award. His first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998). With the rest of the starring cast, Nesbitt was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. In Lucky Break (2001), he made his debut as a film lead playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 shootings in Derry. A departure from his previous "cheeky ch...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2141436 ... Read more

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Title: Leading the Gaze: From Showing to Telling in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet.(Book Review)
Author: Sarah Hatchuel
Publication: Early Modern Literary Studies (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2000
Publisher: Matthew Steggle
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Chapters: Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea, James Nesbitt, Ciarán Hinds, Roma Downey, Michael Legge, Laura Pyper, Patrick Magee, Colin Morgan, John Lynch, Conleth Hill, Colin Blakely, Jayne Wisener, Gerald Home, Siobhán Mckenna, Martin Mccann, Laura Donnelly, Jimmy Cricket, Harry Towb, Ciarán Mcmenamin, Maclean Stewart, William Caulfield, Jimeoin, Tara Lynne O'neill, Charles Lawson, Paul Loughran, Susan Lynch, Michelle Fairley, James Ellis, Michael Colgan, Warren Christie, Conor Macneill, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Declan Mulholland, Kate Thompson, J. G. Devlin, Geraldine Hughes, Olivia Nash, Michael Smiley, Frances Tomelty, Gerard Mccabe, Lisa Hogg, Aislín Mcguckin, Evin Crowley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 169. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Nesbitt (born 15 January 1965) is a Northern Irish actor. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher, like his father, so began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994). He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991). Nesbitt got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet (ITV, 19982003), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award. His first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998). With the rest of th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2141436 ... Read more

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9 pages. Choral music arranged for soprano/tenor/alto/bass with piano or organ accompaniment, from the score to Kenneth Branagh's film of Henry V. ... Read more

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Chapters: C. S. Lewis, Kenneth Branagh, Louis Macneice, Terence O'neill, Baron O'neill of the Maine, Robin Eames, Alister Mcgrath, Jack Higgins, Arlene Foster, Milne Barbour, James Godfrey Macmanaway, Alan Harper, Ivan Ewart, David Bleakley, Edward Bingham, William Ross, Alex Easton, William Booth, Michael Jackson, Thomas Bloomer, Paul Girvan, Harry Patterson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 130. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, and both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings". According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at the age of 32 Lewis returned to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England". His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim. In 1956, he married the American writer Joy Gresham, 17 years his junior, who died four years later of cancer at the age of 45. Lewis died three years after his wife, as the result of renal failure. His death came one week before his 65th birthday. Media coverage of his death was minimal, as he died on 22 November 1963 the same day that U.S. Presi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5813 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea, James Nesbitt, Ciarán Hinds, Adrian Dunbar, Stephen Boyd, Michael Legge, Laura Pyper, Patrick Magee, John Lynch, Conleth Hill, Colin Blakely, Jayne Wisener, Gerald Home, Siobhán Mckenna, Martin Mccann, Harry Towb, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Mcmenamin, Maclean Stewart, Tara Lynne O'neill, Charles Lawson, Susan Lynch, Marie Jones, Michelle Fairley, Michael Colgan, Beatrice Campbell, Terence Cooper, Warren Christie, Conor Macneill, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Declan Mulholland, Andrew Simpson, Geraldine Hughes, Lisa Hogg, Aislín Mcguckin, Joe Rea. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 155. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Nesbitt (born 15 January 1965) is a Northern Irish actor. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher, like his father, so began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994). He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991). Nesbitt got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet (ITV, 19982003), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award. His first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998). With the rest of the starring cast, Nesbitt was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. In Lucky Break (2001), he made...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2141436 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Shakespeare in Space, published by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 4069 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost.(Chapter 9)(Critical Essay)
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kenneth Branagh, John Thaw, Peter O'toole, Alan Rickman, Albert Finney, Carol Cleveland, Joan Sims, Jonathan Pryce, Dorothy Tutin, Alan Bates, Bernard Bresslaw, Glenda Jackson, Ian Carmichael, John Gielgud, Michael Williams, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Ian Holm, Ralph Fiennes, David Warner, Nigel Kneale, David Morrissey, Laurence Fox, Sean Bean, Richard Attenborough, Imelda Staunton, Ioan Gruffudd, Bruce Payne, Edward Woodward, Michael Sheen, Habib Tanvir, Allison Janney, Maxine Peake, Stephanie Beacham, Douglas Hodge, Madhur Jaffrey, Timothy Spall, Jane Arden, Alec Mccowen, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Blakemore, Ted Lange, Georgina Hale, Fiona Shaw, Jamie Parker, Nora Swinburne, Ross Boatman, Robert Lindsay, Rosemary Harris, Amanda Drew, Rachel Roberts, Gemma Arterton, Andrew Lincoln, Stephen Mangan, Janet Mcteer, Brian Wilde, Sally Hawkins, Lionel Jeffries, Jill Bennett, Sheila Hancock, Robert Marsden, Peter Dennis, Indira Varma, Sherrie Hewson, Maggie Jones, Ben Whishaw, Stephen Beckett, List of Rada Alumni, Emma Lowndes, Lisa Dillon, Imogen Stubbs, Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, Elliot Cowan, Kevin Mcnally, Priya Rajvansh, David Bamber, Rebecca Pidgeon, Peter Coke, Theodore J. Flicker, Tenniel Evans, Pippa Guard, Andrea Riseborough, Eve Best, Lauren Crace, Lisa Harrow, James Dreyfus, Bob Grant, Sian Brooke, Amanda Hale, Jimmy Perry, Alfred Burke, David Rintoul, Richard Digby Day, Shaun Parkes, Edward Bennett, Alex Wyndham, Barry England, Arnold Wilkerson, Hywel Bennett, Ronald Pickup, Pippa Scott, Michael Simkins, Tom Hiddleston, John D. Collins, Daniel Percival, Joanna Page, Wunmi Mosaku, James Hayter, Diane Parish, Aidan Mcardle, Jessica Capshaw, John Hopkins, Kathryn Hunter, Emma Hamilton, Lynsey Baxter, Leila Birch, Owain Yeoman, Bruno Barnabe, Zena Marshall, Gareth Thomas, Ri... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Studies in the Humanities, published by Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of English on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 7861 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Visions and revisions of Laurence Olivier in the Hamlet films of Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh.(Critical Essay)
Author: Noel Sloboda
Publication: Studies in the Humanities (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of English
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By the acclaimed writer/director/ star of Hamlet, this script is enhanced by Branagh's introduction discussing comedy and writing, 25 stills from the film, and complete cast and crew credits. Winner of the Orsella d'Oro at the 1995 Venice Film Festival. 25 b/w photos.

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Are you a wannabe actor? Do you love theatre, supporter of the Arts that you are? You will love this. Hilarious, wonderful performances.

A complete comic delight
While working towards his amazing film of "Hamlet," Kenneth Branagh plus several of his close friends and colleagues took a little time off for a lighthearted "take" on actors playing Hamlet.This film knocked my socks off.If you've ever been an actor, it's true to the bone of the experience, but with such a gentle, hilarious, gay grotesquerie that it's probably one of my favorite works of Branagh's, and surely the most unexpected.No one I've ever met doesn't love this little gem about a bunch of out-of-work actors with dreams of really "doing" Hamlet and getting their lives together - putting the Great Dane together with shoestring, gum, and very little else but heart.Highly recommended.The entire cast is stellar. ... Read more

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Perhaps the best-known of Shakespeare's tragedies, Hamlet has all the ingredients for a gripping story: revenge and power, familial love and betrayal, dramatic sword fights, dark spooky scenes. Once again Lois Burdett has woven her own brand of magic by transforming Shakespeare's complex verse into rhyming couplets. She has created a version of Hamlet especially for children, even as young as seven, and one that readers of all ages will enjoy.

At the appropriately named Hamlet Elementary School in Stratford, Ontario, where Burdett has taught for over 20 years, her students have created wonderful drawings of Hamlet to illustrate Burdett's fluid rhymes. The students' interpretations are vivid evidence of Burdett's clever ability to bring Shakespeare's complex characters and intricate plots to life for young people.

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Within minutes I knew I wanted the whole series
Teaching Shakespeare to children has been a challenge until I found this series. Hamlet for Kids was the first book I read and I found it completely entertaining. As a home educator, I also found these works very inspiring. Burdett has found a way to use Shakespeare to help elementary school students in their reading comprehension and writing skills. The text is written in couplets, and contains the more famous lines from Shakespeare. The writings and illustrations by 3rd and 4th graders are entertaining and helpful. I wrote the author to get permission to do a stage performance of her work and received a prompt, personal reply with many helpful suggestions. This author is amazing and truly dedicated to helping children. My children love to read these books. This series is one of my top five favorite picks for an educational resource.

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These books are a great tool for wrapping one's head around the works of the Bard. From a culture that hosts a renowned Shakespeare festival annually, the author & her students make their festival experience accessible to those of us who reside in the far-flung provinces of the realm.

Educational tool
This series is wonderful to use in classrooms as a supplement for students with special needs.I use it at the high school level when including students with intellectual disablitites in the regular curriculum.It also serves as a fun review for the entire class!

Hamlet:It's Not Just For Grown-Ups Anymore
This was the perfect text to get my 10-year old reading Shakespeare!She's a bright girl, but I thought the "real" text of Hamlet might be a bit burdensome, so when I saw this book, I bought it right away.She loved it!Not only did she understand it, she liked reading it.
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I teach third grade in an urban school in a very large district and have used Burdett's version of Hamlet as my sole reading program component for the last 2 months.My students have showed more growth in comprehension, vocabulary, writitng skills and public speaking, than I have ever seen with any other class.Not only has their work showed such growth, but their passion for reading has flourished unbelievably.My class ranges from d's toaverage b's to high honor roll and every child has grown and every child now loves Shakespeare.The wording that Burdett uses is enjoyable and comprehendable yet challenging enough to keep the educational bar raised without compromising the accuracy and intent of Shakespeare's original version.Burdett also incorporates written material and illustrations by students in her second grade class. This helps the children in my class relate to the book even more.They have developed a thirst for Shakespeare that I enjoy trying to quench everyday.Every child is quoting Shakespeare and reciting soliloquys, and I credit much of that to Burdett and her brilliant writing.I loved this book so much that I have personally purchased her entire series and have displayed them all in my classroom.These books are checked out by students in my class everday.They are by far the most frequently read books in my class. She has truly brought Shakespeare back to life in the classroom and on behalf of my students and myself as well, I thank her.Classic literature is back!!!!! ... Read more

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