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Shakespeare in Adaptation unit

Second and third year undergraduate unit at La Trobe University (Bundoora campus, in Melbourne)coordinated by Chris Palmer. The unit examines four of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, including two film versions of each play. One of the plays set during…

Tags: adaptation, Bundoora, Chris Palmer, drama, film, La Trobe University, MacBeth, Melbourne, Shakespeare, university, Victoria, William Shakespeare

â€˜Gale rejects Lethalâ€™s â€˜serfsâ€™ claimâ€™ online article

An online article on June 25 reporting comments made by Brendon Gale, Chief Executive of the AFL club Richmond on air at Melbourne radio station 3AW. He was responding to earlier comments by AFL commentator Leigh Matthews that pay claims of …

Tags: 3AW, AFL, Australian Football League, Australian rules football, Brendon Gale, feudal, Jennifer Witham, Leigh Matthews, Melbourne, online, pay dispute, radio, Richmond, sport, Victoria, website

Shakespeare Unit

Level 2 undergraduate unit â€˜Shakespeareâ€™ coordinated by Peter Eckersall at the University of Melbourne. In part the unit investigates film and television adaptations of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, and two plays set in the medieval period…

Tags: adaption, drama, dramatic, film, films, Hamlet, MacBeth, Melbourne, Peter Eckersall, Shakespeare, television, universities, university, University of Melbourne, Victoria, William Shakespeare

'Romancing the Medieval' Unit

Level 3 undergraduate unit â€˜Romancing the Medievalâ€™ coordinated by Stephanie Trigg at the University of Melbourne. The unit covers a variety of genres of medieval literature, as well as post-16th century works that re-create or revive…

The Mace of Parliament

In this article from the Western Argus, the significance and history of the mace in parliamentary proceedings is explained. The author describes the mace used in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as a sceptre surmounted by a cross, an orb and the…

Literature and Culture: Representations of the Medieval

A fully online second-year undergraduate unit offered by Macquarie University through Open Universities Australia. The unit covers various aspects of medievalism, including William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victoria, the…

Tags: Arthur, Arthurian, Arts and Crafts Movement, cinema, film, Gothic, King Arthur, Macquarie University, Marion Zimmer Bradley, online, Open Universities Australia, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Umberto Eco, Vic, Victoria, Victorian medievalism, William Morris

'The Viking': A film review in the â€˜Camperdown Chronicleâ€™

A film review in the â€˜Camperdown Chronicleâ€™ on August 24, 1929 for â€˜The Vikingâ€™. The review is featured in the â€˜Camperdown Theatre: Tonightâ€™s Picturesâ€™ section on page 5. Unlike other reviews of the film,…

Tags: Camperdown, Camperdown Chronicle, cinema, Erik the Red, film, film review, films, Greenland, Helga, Lief Eriksson, Norseman, pagan, review, Thorhild, Vic, Victoria, viking

Frozen Viking Story

An article on page 8 of the Melbourne newspaper The Argus on September 9, 1922. The article corrects a previous article in The Argus that reported, based on accounts in American newspapers, that a Viking warrior had been found frozen in an iceberg…

Tags: archaeological, archaeology, artifact, artifacts, Copenhagen, costume, costumes, Dante, Denmark, finding, Greenland, Melbourne, museum, Stockholm, Sweden, The Argus, Vic, Victoria, viking, vikings

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