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How can Television Adaptations Work to
Promote Understanding of
Shakespeare amongst Young
Audiences?
Kathryn WestwoodUniversity of Manchester
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‘the BBC’s mission [is] to inform, educate and entertain’
Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Copy of The Royal Charter for the continuance of the British Broadcasting Corporation , p. 3.
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‘The Public Purposes of the BBC are as follows—
(a) sustaining citizenship and civil society;
(b) promoting education and learning;(c) stimulating creativity and cultural
excellence;(d) representing the UK, its nations,
regions and communities […]’
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‘the perception is that people won’t watch [“high culture”]’
John Forrest, Interview with Kathryn Westwood: 22/2/2011
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JF: […] people don’t look for stuff in broadcast, they’re given what they take. […] KW: So TV and the people who put programmes on TV have the power to change […] demand for certain programmes? JF: Undoubtedly.
John Forrest, Interview with Kathryn Westwood: 22/2/2011
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Responses to questionnaire from Walton High School students, 4/03/2011.
(As regards to Hamlet)‘Would you watch the rest of any of the adaptations you have seen today?’
Yes: 33.33%No: 66.66%
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‘the poems they say’
‘the clothes they wear’
‘it can be hard to follow when they [the characters] ramble on’
‘when other people don’t like it […] it slows you down’
‘What is it about studying Shakespeare that can be challenging?’:
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Adaptations viewed by students:
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‘Please indicate the reasons why you preferred it:’
Hamlet (19/44)
language
images
actorssetting
composition
music
Macbeth (Goold, 12/44)
language
images
actors
settingcomposition
music
Macbeth (Re: Told 13/44)
language
imagesactors
setting
composition
music
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Interview with Simon Trinder, Tracy Irish and Kathryn Westwood, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2/03/2011.
‘language essentially is fun - making up stories, poems, rhymes - young children play with language very
naturally because that’s how they learn […] – those rhythms and
patterns they can enjoy if they’re given permission, if they’re allowed
to.’
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‘Would you watch the rest of your preferred clip?’
Yes - Hamlet: 33%- Goold’s Macbeth:
41%- Moffat’s Macbeth:
48%
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‘I would watch the rest of Macbeth (2) because it was scary and Macbeth (3) because it was
modern’
‘[Macbeth Re: Told] looks like it would be easier to understand in
our modern day language’
‘Hamlet because of David Tennant’
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‘explore the enjoyment of speaking these words and the
effect they can have theatrically’
‘the lines [become] secondary which is a very freeing thing
[because] when the lines aren’t the paramount thing in the front of your mind they take on […] a
deeper meaning’
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‘very white, and old, and middle-class’
‘most of the people at theatre on a Saturday night, […] are there to
be seen […] and it’s just not pleasant’
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‘[…] it was a very difficult wall to break down from the word go. Students [had] a
very thoughtful and dissect-based mind-set. It’s not very often that people come to us
here and expect an academic approach […] if you’re fighting against their normal need to kind of sit down and talk things through
and come up with theories, you’re not gonna get very far.’
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‘They [young audiences] are conditioned to go with the mass
[…] through marketing’ but are also,
‘the more sophisticated consumers of media’.
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1 Michele Willems, ‘Verbal-Visual, Verbal-Pictoral or Textual-Televisual? Reflections on the BBC Shakespeare Series’, Shakespeare and the Moving Image) p. 73.2 John Forrest, Interview with Kathryn Westwood: 22/2/2011
‘in television we are used to terseness’
‘we’re used to short-term quick snippets’
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‘the media are routinely seen as an anti-educational influence, as the deadly enemy of literacy, of
morality, of art and culture.’
David Buckingham, Reading Audiences: Young people and the media (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 1993) p. 3.
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• relate to the text in their own terms
• identify with the characters
• be entertained.
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Clips viewed by students:
• RSC’s/BBC’s Hamlet (2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOjpvNPr3JU
• Goold’s Macbeth (2010):
• Moffat’s Macbeth (2005): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjjY-8VMcHk&feature=related
• RSC’s/BBC’s Hamlet (2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOjpvNPr3JU
• Goold’s Macbeth (2010): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DorcFBk4sf8
• Moffat’s Macbeth (2005): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjjY-8VMcHk&feature=related
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‘Please indicate the reasons why you preferred it:’
Hamlet(19/44) 43.18%
language 6 31.57%images 6 31.57%actors 13 68.42%setting 4 21.05%composition 5 26.31%music 12 63.15%
Macbeth (Goold) 2010(12/44) 27%
language 1 8.3%images 7 58.33%actors 0 0%setting 9 75%composition 7 58.33%music 10 83.33%
Macbeth (Re: Told) 2005
(13/44) 29.54%
language 10 76.9%images 4 30.79%actors 1 7.6%setting 8 61.53%composition 3 23%music 4 30.79%