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Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Abdication and Aggression

on BBC One London

Hugo Dyson talking to four American graduates studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

This week: Abdication and Aggression
To end his present series on Tragedy, Mr. Dyson examines four totally different abdicators, Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, and Prospero - and finds a connection between their apparent renunciation, and a strange form of demand.
A Monitor presentation

Contributors

Presenter:
Hugo Dyson
Designer:
Malcolm Middleton
Director:
Patrick Garland

BBC One London

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