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Title: Zzzzzz......
Review: I bought this video to show to my 10th grade classes before starting our Shakespeare unit to give them an idea of who Shakespeare was and what was going on in history while he was writing. The video technically covers both of these topics. But it is SO PAINFUL to watch. I am fascinated by Elizabethan times and by the life of Shakespeare, and I can barely force myself to focus on what is being said in the video. The entire 50 minutes is basically a collection of drawings from the time, nature scenes, and people wandering around in period costume, while a pair of narrators trade back and forth, reading in a monotone about things that should be really interesting but instead end up sounding dry and pointless. Honestly, I doubt I will even show it to my classes. I go to a lot of effort to make Shakespeare's writing (as well as English history) vibrant and interesting. This video is everything people think about when they think "Shakespeare = boring."
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