shakespeare doesn't fill in that gap. are they friends? does he feel some loyalty? he feel some ambivalence? on the one hand, this is the prince and the father of the prince they have to get rid of. >> professor laura bates from indiana state university has been volunteering in prisons for more than 20 years. she founded a unique program called "shakespeare in the shu." >> we chose "macbeth" as our main text for a lot of important reasons. the idea of looking at the choices that this character makes, someone who is in aristotle's terms a tragic hero. he's a noble man, an honorable man, a good man who made bad choices. >> i'm in prison for murder. um, i got 60 years for murder. but i'm the hero now. >> i will say for whiskey, to recruit these gutter tramps. they ain't trained and they are going against this valued general. what i'm saying is, that's risky, right? >> everything he's doing from the beginning to the end of this play is risky. once he decided to take that turn to go back, he got so much to lose, you know what i'm saying? so he's risking everything from t

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that is what happens to judith shakespeare. [laughter] so the question you might ask, is this what is going to happen to jane franklin? judith shakespeare is a figment of virginia was imagination. actually a rather modern and manly i.d. idea of the self and of the author herself, solitary and unencumbered, a free man. judith shakespeare killed herself because she was pregnant, because she could not reconcile at life of the mind or of the artist with the life of a mother. neither could virginia woolf. the facts of jane franklin's life are very hard to come by. most of what she wrote is lost. and with scant record of her life is left has been saved only because she was benjamin franklin sister. a jane franklin is not a figment of my imagination. she was flesh and blood and milk in tears. her brother ran a play and broke their father's heart rate she would not, she could not. she didn't kill herself one winter's night. she never gave herself that rope either. she had too many people to look after. she never left anyone behind. her

>> shakespeare's?> oh, i don't think i am educated enough about him to say that but i will say that it is probably the most brilliant and ridiculous play i have ever been in. >> and you resisted it because you weren't ready to face it or because you weren't particularly intrigued by it? >> no, i resisted it in my younger years. first of all i didn't want to play anybody this old but more than that and all the clichÉs -- he is off stage for a long time and what will i do in my dressing room and all of that sort of stuff. the play isn't one play. it is 12, one-act plays and if you play it, you play each scene in and of itself you are fine. if you try to psychologically link this man from one scene to other, you will sink. you can't because shakespeare has things happen to him off camera, off stage that are impossible to link psychologically. >> i think with a.c. bradley a victorian critic says king lear is a play too huge for the stage. you don't buy that, do you? >> no. >> at all? >> people have said it

and i did shakespeare in the park for joe.s quite interesting. >> fight club. >> well, i am going to get there. but there are a series of movies to get there. david fincher directed it. it a remarkable experience. we played a lot of poker in a down payment. i took a lot of money from brad pitt. it was amazing. i would work for him in a heartbeat for nothing. it they called and said david wants you to do this, i would say, fine. i would do it for nothing. working for david expanded my horizons then and after. he brought out more in me. david does so many takes. you have to continually be creative. you could do six or seven takes going one way. then he once you to turn it off and try other things. now, when i do something i don't get that many, i am frustrated. you are doing television, you might get 3, 4, or five takes. you have to decide what your choices are right there and say, this is my best choice. and sometimes it is not. what you have to stick to it. you've got to do it. >> you tell me that, instead of watching the gram

. -- ♪ tavis: as one of this generation's leading interpreters of shakespeare, kenneth branagh has beeninated for five academy awards, five golden globes, and was knighted in 2012. kenneth directs and costars in the latest version of the jack ryan saga called "jack ryan: shadow recruit." it looks at how the cia recruited jack ryan way back in the day. let's take a look at the clip. >> how was your flight? >> fine, thank you. that can be brutal. >> i survived. >> what can i do for you? martinez couldn't get to new york? >> not when you consider. >> you americans like to consider yourself as direct. i .onder if you are just rude >> you like to think of yourselves as poets, but maybe you are just touchy. >> why star and direct? would be justt directing. i knew the novels, and i really enjoyed the previous films. i knew chris pine was going to play jack ryan, and i thought that was a fantastic combination. we got to the point where they were due to cast the russian villain. they were all nudging me a little. they got to be really good. actor ai will give this ring. you know what, he was ava

[gavel] >> the garden contains plants referred to by william shakespeare's plays and poems. located near the academy of sciences, shakespeare's garden was designed in 1928 by the california spring and wild flower association. here is a truly enchanting and tranquil little garden tucked behind the path of a charming rot iron gate with romantic magic. the overarching cherry trees, the gorgeous big walkway and brick wall, the benches, the rustic sun dial. the pack picnic, lovely bench, enjoy the sunshine and soft breeze and let the >> bonnie banks. bonnie banks. my definition of noise is uncontrolled music. without format. pretty simple affair. pancakes, and you're -- people get up on sundays around noon, weekends or whatever. should not be too hard to walk into place. have your audio alarm clock go off for two hours waking your up while you are eating breakfast with many interesting visuals once in a while. improvisation. listening or not to the person you're playing up against or people or machines. trying to get as many different people in as possible. different genres, expe

shakespeare wrote his later plays. middleton, webster and ben johnson were pushing drama forward. >> some plays are funny. some are mack abber, dark and full of scary events. the first is the latter. justice malify is an early horror slasher film and rehearsing and working on it is like happening out in a morgue. >> the late sam planned for two theatres. the actor and director died before the globe was finished. now his vision was realised plays can be put on indoors when the wet winter month was out of action. >> from all of us in doha, bye-bye. >> another child opens fire in school. this time in new mexico. a teacher stepped in to stop the attack. but not before two kids were shot. >> mistakes were clearly made. >> a series of scandals overshadowing chris christie's state of the state address. he offers another apology. >> two days of voting in egypt marred by deadly violence. egyptians have been heading to the polls to vote on a new constitution. >> a texas man takes legal action to remove his pregnant wife from lif

would say -- a poor naked wretch as shakespeare would say. >> you can catch them at the brooklyn academyic through february 9. but is only a bloomberg television, so tune in. hart's police company right along was a win -- ride along was a win. the only wide release debut over the weekend. do you ever wonder how movies control the weather, like how you get a blizzard going during a scene? here is the man who makes the snow. >> mother nature is pretty unpredictable. a lot of times, she does not come through. we are standing by to make sure it happens. ice at and shape block rate of 800 pounds a minute. and then we paint everything with the ice. frozen particles of ice. is extremely warm, plt,so we use water scu or snow foam. >> fargo used your snow. >> fargo was an interesting movie. about half of that motion picture is man-made snow. we were up in minnesota, and they had one of those winters where it wasn't cooperating too well. there are many places up and down streets and fields and parking lots. the academy of motion pictures, they gave you an oscar for snowmaking. theack in the earlie

wilson knight the foremost shakespeare critic of his time and the preeminent marxist critic. as a reader at london's royal court theater between 1957 and 1959 for the performance of his one-act play called the invention was the first of numerous performances of his work that winner in him a place alongside his fellow countrymen on the international literary stage. acclaim for his work came early on. a british writer wrote of wole soyinka in 1965, wole soyinka has done for napping language what perkins have done for centuries. booted it away, rifled his pockets and scattered the loot in the middle of next week. lap go the image of the artist is one that sub to essentially embraced. .. >> u.s. arrested again at the start of the nigerian civil war and he offered the leader to plead against him in nigeria. for 27 months, ladies and gentlemen, he was imprisoned, including 22 months in solitary confinement. living under horrific condition, deprived almost entirely of books and pens and paper and he nonetheless wrote in secret on whatever and whenever he could. including scraps of p

i think if you take monteverdi. >> contemporary shakespeare who turned the magical form which lasts onlywo or three minute, three and a half minutes, four minutes at the most into a chain of music that became what we call opera, in the first opera, that is pretty smart, and also that he was the first kind of musical scientist that actually encapsulated the whole gamut of music emotions, fine that is terrific but bach does that as well and he adds to that the intricacies of counter point, in a way you can sum up bach with the symbol of the cross, i mean, this is the or are sobble, horizontal, there is the unfolding of rhythm and of harmony, and of melody, rather. this is the cord sequences and the harmony, that's why they all intersect so it is a christian symbol but also a fantastically strong mathematical symbol of court point, of intersection, the collision of two planes. >> rose: you said too about him that he was the epitome of a musician who strove all lifelong and finally acquired the habit of perfection and he was a thoroughly imperfect human being. >> well, he was. i mean he pick

. >> the playhouse is the creation of shakespeare's globe, the company behind the famous theater on the bank side. so they're bringing theatrical history back to life. seating, just 340 people. the design and lighting all specifically created in jack observian style. the era began in 1603, when the king of scotland took the throne of england. it was a time when shakespeare was writing his plays, and middleton, and johnston were also pushing drama forward in this period. >> in some places, very dark. and it's one of the horror films. >> now his vision is finally released, the plays can be put on indoors with the wet and winter months. the show must go on of course. aljazeera, london. >> that's it for us, if you would like to comment on any type of the stories you've seen, log onto the website. can you meet our team and tell us what you want to see in our nightly current affairs program. join the conversation with us on twitter or our facebook page. and guess what, we'll have more america tonight tomorrow. >> this is aljazeera america, i'm thomas drayed in new york with the top stories at

eton, we do aat lot of shakespeare but not dickens. i'm still puzzled as to why. neither of us did dickens in school. >> we spent one week in university studying him. timenk i had the limited to write an essay so i try to find the shortest story i could find. >> i ought to ring up my english teacher and ask why. >> sometimes, they both suffer a superseding newswriters with going to school then they feel like they have known them but they don't know them as adults. for both of us, we discovered dickens in depth when we came to do the film. >> he discovered it through a screenplay. >> and then i will read the book on which it is based. >> is it called "invisible woman?" >> yes. it was well received critically. ithad critical praise when came out about 20 years ago. dickens is a key player in it. the first chapters are fascinating about actresses in the theater. the role of women actresses, how they are perceived and in the case of this family, looking for respectability in the profession . it is seen as being dubious. one level up from being a prostitute. >> how muc

sometimes you really do have to, as shakespeare said, prick people so that they bleed. >> he's dealing with congress, such abulky instrument, always has been. what he seems to celebrate about lincoln is he's not as good himself of getting into that messiness and get things done. he said people fantasize what leadership is supposed to be like, what a president's supposed to be able to do. and structurally things have changed. even the ways of lyndon johnson in the 60s are really relishes of a bygone era that a modern president can't replicate. >> well, it's curious, because congress is no less bulky in its own way in lincoln's day as president. and lincoln had his way of dealing with people too. it tended to be what one congressman referred to as a back kitchen way of doing things. linken did not want to be seen as directly influencing. he did not like the executive order or the executive solo approach. but what he did like to do was to work on individuals in congress. and he wouldn't do it personally. he would send his emissaries. he had his horse always ready at the white house to tak

the play house opened on the site of the old shakespeare theatre and we are going backstage and see how they are getting an experience by candle light. >> beneath the light, a timeless tragedy is playing out. a beautiful woman marries for love and angering her family and unleashing a wave of brutal violence. this is masterpiece of the theatre and now a fitting new home. >> everything we thought and wanted to do here we looked at the historic examples. it is like writing an es kay, you have the idea and have to back it up with the footnotes. >> this is a creation of the shakespeare. so they have form in bringing the history back to life. what they have made is an intimate space and sitting 340 people. the design and decoration and lighting recreated in style. many of you may be wondering with the term means, so here is an explainer. it began in 1603 when the king of scotland took the thrown of england. and drama was being pushed forward in that period. >> some are funny, classic, and dark and full of scarey events. the first one is the latter, it is one of the great early horror films an

is that it's a story as old time, a story of love. [ laughter ] one that rivals the works of a shakespeare a nicholas sparks. [ laughter ] this story of love is rooted in that deepest human emotion: riding the boner train to poundtown. it's a tale of a winsome blonde ingenue, dana perino a young girl new to the big city with big dreams and a heart so pure she makes mary poppins look like a disgusting whore bag. >> i'm awake by 6:30. there's a certain word that rhymes with truck. should the detainees be given the e word in the first place. >> erot can a? >> i didn't say that. >> they don't start families because they feel like they are not financially secure to have a smart. it's not that they are not having s-e-x. >> they can't say that. it's not a (bleep) word. [cheers and applause] now nobody falls for a good girl harder than a bad boy. ♪ and no boy was badder than the rebel-licious greg. >> i was on percocet for seven days. best week of my life. >> i'm drunk now. i've been drinking since two. i gave three people hepatitis. [ laughter ] >> a pill popping afternoon drunk whose riddled wit

and i suppose that is a post-freudian take on acting, pre-freud, of course, shakespeare -- shakespeare, of course, didn't find it necessary to explain evil. didn't find it necessary to give a back story. >> rose: he just did what? >> he just presented his evil. he wrote in a time when there was good in the world and there was evil in the world. god existed. >> rose: you don't explain it, you just saw it and responded. >> and there was evil personified. boom. >> rose: there's also love in this between you and carrie. explain that to me. is it simply two people who know both wounded? two people who need some small place where they might want to touch? >> i was talking about them before as two broken-winged birds. which is a -- i think it's what you -- >> rose: how you see it is what -- >> well, there is the recognition between them, absolutely, that they are damaged souls. i think brody comes back to a wife he's known for a very, very long time but their experiences are now so wildly different that there is no place for them to connect anymore. and he meet this is woman who is reckless a

shakespeare in love, pulp fiction and philomena nominated just this morning.talking about the movie based on a movie about a jewish up rising. the conversation turned and he took aim at the nra. take a listen. >> this has been a project i searched for since i was a boy. it's an important story to tell. it's not a holocaust story as much, but my whole philosophy or anybody. when injustice is there, you can't march into the camps. this is a story of the opposite. >> do you own a gun? >> no, never owned a gun. >> why does that resonate to you? >> when you are marching a half million people into auschwitz, if i found a gun, i don't think we need guns in this country and i hate it and i think the nra is a disaster area and i will make a movie. i will make a movie with merrill streep and take this issue head on and they will wish they were not alive after i'm done. >> a documentary type thing? >> no, big movie. that will move people to that situation. >> i don't want to be involved in that stuff. >> you have great visions. you make the concerts for 9/11 and make the

. >> turkey is -- he is like shakespeare and other he all rollinged into one >> sreenivasan: those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: on wall street today, the end of 2013 went much like the rest of this record- setting year: stocks kept rising. the s&p 500 had its best year since 1997, up 29%. other major indexes also scored big. the dow jones industrial average added another 72 points today to close at 16,576. the nasdaq rose 22 points to close at 4,176. we'll look at what drove the year-long rally right after the news summary. two new reports rounded out the year in economic news. housi

civil war in syria, a reporter's notebook on the obama presidency and a new interpretation of shakespeare'sing. >> i'm in need of peeling this onion to a deeper, more profound place that i haven't yet been able to go. i'm very happy for the reception, but i know that i haven't gone where i want to go with this character. >> we have those stories and more on what happened and what might happen. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: >> there's a staying around here. you stand behind what you say. around here you don't make excuses. you make come

as the new deal sort of began to have an impact, they were able to engine shakespeare -- enjoy shakespeare plays in the park, string quartet. my unemployed seamstress aunts who were members of the, you know, ladies' garment member union could get a couple weeks in the countryside at a solidarity camp. that was life. a lot of it was communist party. you were not allowed to say anything nice about the communist party, that's a rule. and there were a lot of things wrong with it. i've mentioned some of them. but there were things that were right about it. like one was that it overcame the amnesia that nay than talked about -- nathan talked about. it was always there. people remembered. somebody will bed how to turn a mihm -- remembered how to turn a mimeograph machine. you went from a civil rights demonstration to labor organizing to something else. that crazy international idea, but that was kind of in the back of their minds. it wasn't what was really going on. the destruction of the communist party was quite important. killed off the radical continuing element that kept a lot of the left tr

games were invented and spread even if no way part of the imperial breach we have adopted but with shakespeare. >> host: one of the other that comes out what is that? talk about how american students learn something that americans see. >> guest: du talk the history. >> host: that is the iconic message that people take away. so liable little familiar with that culture. >> guest: absolutely. they are getting away from nowadays but don't get me wrong. but also they will protect sometimes to be simply candid with each other. had with those stories, the told of the storybooks it just is not true. they were looking for they could impose their own culture. and eddied they did conform with the ideology. >> for example, people who did not conform persecution and with three generations of mothers and fathers said massachusetts to persecute minorities but in order to establish a democratic tradition and the my grandson but of course, but they didn't because of religious persecution if they did not persecuted half. i am amazed they do not realize they were already exiled and then they stopped to pick up a

initiating the four hundred and fifty anniversary of shakespeare's play national and local theater companies around the country planned to celebrate with presentations of the premium great masterpiece to direct the year. on the music front two thousand for eighteen days are still in the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of jenin camp in the city staff has been a bestseller can have money like this shot were present. many scouts to expand the year and orchestras from other countries are scheduled to be in korea before the german computers masterpieces. also it is the one hundred anniversary of the birth of monetary and need to pack still good still a number of museums and galleries art and retrospect gifts. is it to some of the fence and performances there will be seeing doctors here are a lot to look for t thank you so much to him the international olympic committee has acknowledged the significance of kenya as performance at the most recent wintry day. stephen kaye joins us in the sports center with the details below there. hey guys at the friday which means much needed rest for many of us b

we you know we don't publish funny cat videos and we don't publish you know the polling works of shakespeare or something like this but for basic information you know to say look people do use marijuana and these are some of the ways that they use it i think it's completely foolish to imagine that blocking the wikipedia entry is going to stop people from learning that kind of information instead they're going to learn it from much less responsible sources rather than having a clear encyclopedic description which would include questions about the dangers and so forth so you know i think that this was i mean it's silly it's not going to do any good. but so we keep it can be made by anyone right so with this in mind it's credibility of the source is quite law ilo people would usually like laugh if you say quote we compare you however much they may be using it in their daily routine is it possible to bring credibility level to let's say what britannica enjoyed when it was the most quoted encyclopedia. already you know we have the best academic studies that have been done into the quality would b

-- what happens to our civilization when students do not -- read plato or aristotle do not read shakespeare or know in the bible. what happens to civilization under those circumstance. i'm merely you to speculate. you already see signs. one direction that the discussion often takes is people often say everybody should study engineering. quit wasting your time with the humanity be an engineer. they make money and increase value. there are a few problems with that. i want to make clear. i'm not somebody who says that p.m. i'm not somebody opposed to liberal art education at all. as a matter of fact, people who can read, think, and write are in surprisingly short supply. they could not write a paragraph. she was having to rewrite them. there's a lot of demand for people who can actually read and think and write. ic when people get on the high horse about engineering. i think the perception is engineering has remained a rigorous subject. if you go school and something like that you come out knowing a largely agreed upon body stuff. when you go do it works. i think if you want liberal art to sur