Film: Shakespeare’s villains
Bad people acting from clear motives like jealousy, passion, rage, blind ambition, or bitterness: it's not that difficult to recognize todays bad guys in clips from screen adaptations of Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III a.o.
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| Date and time | Friday 15 January 2016 21:20 tot 22:20 uur |
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| Location | Filmhuis - zaal 1 |
If you want to understand today's bad guys, take a look at the characters Shakespeare created four centuries ago. We can easily recognize Putin, Saddam Hussein or Eichmann in characters from Macbeth, Hamlet or Richard III. These are bad people acting from clear motives like jealousy, passion, rage, blind ambition, or bitterness. Shakespeare scholar and philosopher Tom Dommisse introduces the villains in clips from screen adaptations from countries like Russia, Japan, Great Britain and the United States. Film connoisseur Gerlinda Heywegen engages him in discussion.
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