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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/125329/Clifton-Fadiman-anthologist-American-elements-short-story-1980" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/29/125329-138-6F215062/Clifton-Fadiman-anthologist-American-elements-short-story-1980.jpg" alt="Analyze short fiction elements evidenced in “The Gift of the Magi,” “The Necklace,” and “The Magic Shop”"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Analyze short fiction elements evidenced in “The Gift of the Magi,” “The Necklace,” and “The Magic Shop”</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/125293/actors-aid-Clifton-Fadiman-production-motivation-elements-1962" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/93/125293-138-93C9ECC4/actors-aid-Clifton-Fadiman-production-motivation-elements-1962.jpg" alt="Discuss how a novel establishes mood, motivation, characterization, and style with Clifton Fadiman and actors"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Discuss how a novel establishes mood, motivation, characterization, and style with Clifton Fadiman and actors</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/85438/production-death-George-Bernard-Shaw-masterpiece-Donald-1970" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/38/85438-138-1964113C/production-death-George-Bernard-Shaw-masterpiece-Donald-1970.jpg" alt="Discover what George Bernard Shaw might have to say about William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Discover what George Bernard Shaw might have to say about William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/125282/Shakespeare-film-life-production-playwright-boyhood-actor-1955" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/82/125282-138-83FF011C/Shakespeare-film-life-production-playwright-boyhood-actor-1955.jpg" alt="Learn about William Shakespeare's early boyhood and path to London to become a playwright and actor"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Learn about William Shakespeare's early boyhood and path to London to become a playwright and actor</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/73028/slave-soliloquy-Hamlet" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/28/73028-138-7AAA604B/slave-soliloquy-Hamlet.jpg" alt="Watch Shakespeare's tragic protagonist Hamlet deliver a soliloquy in the second act of Hamlet"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Watch Shakespeare's tragic protagonist Hamlet deliver a soliloquy in the second act of Hamlet</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/85316/James-Mason-Archibald-MacLeish-life-film-John-1973" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/16/85316-138-737017E4/James-Mason-Archibald-MacLeish-life-film-John-1973.jpg" alt="Explore John Keats's life through a dramatization penned by Archibald MacLeish and narrated by James Mason"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Explore John Keats's life through a dramatization penned by Archibald MacLeish and narrated by James Mason</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/125314/Clifton-Fadiman-anthologist-American-story-commentary-climate-1973" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/14/125314-138-77B8FC0B/Clifton-Fadiman-anthologist-American-story-commentary-climate-1973.jpg" alt="Listen to Clifton Fadiman's analysis of Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short story “The Crocodile”"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Listen to Clifton Fadiman's analysis of Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short story “The Crocodile”</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/22280/Lady-Macbeth-husband-Act-I-oath-film-1964" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/80/22280-138-04F90884/Lady-Macbeth-husband-Act-I-oath-film-1964.jpg" alt="Watch Lady Macbeth exhort Macbeth to murder Duncan in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Watch Lady Macbeth exhort Macbeth to murder Duncan in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/125319/Medieval-Theater-The-Play-of-Abraham-and-1974" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/19/125319-138-421B4389/Medieval-Theater-The-Play-of-Abraham-and-1974.jpg" alt="Witness Western theatre in the Middle Ages by following a troupe performing The Play of Abraham and Isaac"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Witness Western theatre in the Middle Ages by following a troupe performing The Play of Abraham and Isaac</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/22287/Demodocus-Odysseus-account-Homer-home-longing-hosts" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/87/22287-138-49863A8B/Demodocus-Odysseus-account-Homer-home-longing-hosts.jpg" alt="Listen to Odysseus wax poetic over homeland Ithaca in dramatization of Homer's epic poem Odyssey"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Listen to Odysseus wax poetic over homeland Ithaca in dramatization of Homer's epic poem Odyssey</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/22198/Odysseus-Land-journey-home-Departed-Spirits-spirit" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/98/22198-138-0AC518F9/Odysseus-Land-journey-home-Departed-Spirits-spirit.jpg" alt="Agamemnon's spirit telling Odysseus how he was murdered"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Agamemnon's spirit telling Odysseus how he was murdered</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/84960/Voltaire-production-Candide-Encyclopaedia-Britannica-Educational-Corporation-1976" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/60/84960-138-6E3CB0C9/Voltaire-production-Candide-Encyclopaedia-Britannica-Educational-Corporation-1976.jpg" alt="Discover how Voltaire might present Candide and discuss the Age of Enlightenment"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Discover how Voltaire might present Candide and discuss the Age of Enlightenment</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/85394/Bartleby-the-Scrivener-production-Herman-Melville-Charles-1969" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/94/85394-138-EA5FA8B9/Bartleby-the-Scrivener-production-Herman-Melville-Charles-1969.jpg" alt="Discuss Herman Melville's classic American short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” with Charles Van Doren"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Discuss Herman Melville's classic American short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” with Charles Van Doren</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/73025/Hamlet-Act-III-mother-Polonius" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/25/73025-138-A8334668/Hamlet-Act-III-mother-Polonius.jpg" alt="Watch Hamlet's tragic protagonist confront his mother, Queen Gertrude, and accidentally kill Polonius"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Watch Hamlet's tragic protagonist confront his mother, Queen Gertrude, and accidentally kill Polonius</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530/https://www.britannica.com/video/22285/Nestor-Pylos-Trojan-War-Telemachus" class="video-browse-thumb"> <div class="image-wrapper video-browse-thumb__image"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144530im_/https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x250/85/22285-138-DE636CDB/Nestor-Pylos-Trojan-War-Telemachus.jpg" alt="Watch King Nestor recount the horrors of the Trojan War to Odysseus's son Telemachus"/> </div> <div class="video-browse-thumb__content"> <em class="material-icons video-browse-thumb__play-icon md-36 mb-5" data-icon="play_circle_filled"></em> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title"> <div class="video-browse-thumb__title-clamp">Watch King Nestor recount the horrors of the Trojan War to Odysseus's son Telemachus</div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="grid-xs-50 grid-sm-33 grid-md-25"> <a 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