Brandon Sanderson on Middle Grade and YA Lit

BritLit1 Reading: Telling Time for Brit Lit 1

A video version of my epic Brit Lit 1 chronology, minus the scintillating commentary!

BritLit1 Context: Beowulf on video!

This is a pretty good rendition of Beowulf--not perfect, but well executed, with some insightful touches that show the producers are conversant with some of the common tropes and themes in Beowulf scholarship.

(This is just the first of six videos: you'll need to follow the link through to YouTube to get the rest of the playlist.)

BritLit1 Context: Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare

A scholar and an actor explain and perform OP Elizabethan English. The payoff: those half-rhymes in renaissance Brit Lit aren't half-rhymes.

Antigone!

This 1961 version of Antigone, directed by Giorgos Tzavellas, is (so I'm given to understand) very close to Sophocles' text.

Greek Theater!

Well, the architecture of Greek theater, anyway. This snippet is from the Discovery Channel's documentary "Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece":

Castle of Otranto!

Here are some interesting Otranto-related videos:

Jan Švankmajer's surrealist Castle of Otranto:



A brief snippet on Castle of Otranto from a BBC documentary: