A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN with Eileen Atkins.
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- A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures which Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928 to the women students there. It is performed here by the British actress Eileen Atkins.
Just a staggering performance by one genius speaking the words of another genius.
Simply brilliant, and as relevant now as when it was first written.
staggering???? are you serious?
@@ellenm3803 brilliant? Are you an old gas bag too like Ms Woolf?
I love Dame Eileen's acting abilities, she's amazing! This is the first time A Room Of One's Own has made sense to me, actually interested me. It's wonderful.
I was just thinking of finding words to describe Eileen Atkins performance and ‘staggering performance of another genius’ perfectly says it. Thank you.
She really is one of the greats. I always enjoy her roles.
I remember watching this and crying in my room when it was first run on Masterpiece Theater. God bless you for posting it, I never thought I'd ever get to see it again!!!
It is astounding to find something of this caliber on YT. Many thanks for posting this!
Susan, I was just blown away by her performance and since have been looking for more.
Recommend "The Dresser", with the great Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay.
CZcams may have loads of rubbish but there is also a vast quantity of fantastic content. Enough for a years and years. Maybe a lifetime of study.
This speech is not just for women. It's for everyone. Thank you!
Wonderful actress, pin points all characters "thrown" at her.... Splendid performances🤩🌱
Wow, this is a new venture into Wolfe. This narrator is absolutely mind blowing
Well said. And a guideline for all women who want to succeed in a man’s world, which still exist today.
Compelling... the male/female balance within the mind...great performance...thank you.
It was superb performance! We all need to know history of women’s rights. I am so thankful for these amazing women in the history. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much. Love Virgínia Woolf, love Eileen Atkins. The two together - sublime.
I would stay watching this for ages ..
Absolutely brilliant! I'm slayed. What a combination to see! Transferring the content of Virginia in a flawless performance such as this is mind blowing. Thank you
Wonderful performance. I tend to find Virginia Woolf difficult to read, but this I really enjoyed. Thank you.
Absolutely Brilliant. Thank you for posting. Eileen Atkins' amazing performance of Virginia Woolf's powerful words - truly inspiring.
thank you thank you for this precious jewel .... Virginia and Eileen ... stupendous xxx
Thank you for uploading; thank you Eileen Atkins; thank you Virginia Woolf. Brilliant.
A brilliant, young Eileen Atkins,
speaking the truth, as seen by Virginia Woolf.
Thanks for watching her brilliant performance. Woolfe's words sadly, still ring true. Atkins was titled by the Queen, and is now a "Dame".
A National Treasure.
Thanks, Ms. Li, for your response to the posting of Eileen Atkins, playing Virginia Woolf in "A Room of One's Own". Stream a film she was in, with Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney, "The Dresser".
At the beginning of her career, they didn't know what to do with her. She was not beautiful in the conventional sense. She was SEXY.
I watched this years ago on PBS. I just now remembered to look and see if it was on youtube. I am so pleased that it is. I was in college when I first watched it, and the message meant a lot.
Thankyou for this amazing presentation of an amazing and brilliant opus by Virginia Woolf! Relevant to all woman at all times! Illuminating and great insight for a a woman not permitted to attend a college !
Thank you for posting this! Amazing performance to encourage women to get the room they deserve in life!
God bless you for posting this wonderful performance of one of my favorite author's insiteful works. Dame Atkins brings it alive.
Thank you for uploading this gem. I have long wanted to read 'A Room of One's Own' but been daunted by Virginia's stream of consciousness method of writing and the seduction of her word-music. Eileen Atkins has done a phenomenal job in delivering this essay. 50 minutes or passed like a whisper.
If you're still interested try to find a recording of Claire Bloom reading an hour's worth of it -- life changing
WOW! Sooo good.
What a superb performance! Thank you so very much.
Loved her performance in, The Crown!😊
No words I am in awe, amazing.
Thank you for posting this video about such a fascinating woman. Her contribution to literature is enormous.
Absolutely wonderful, thank you!
I am sooo moved!! Thank you for posting this!!
Wonderful!Thank you.🙏
What a surprise!!!! Thank you so much!!! Deeply moving.
Thank you for posting this!
Absolutely stunning.
That was lovely! Thank you so much.
Love this! My daughter Genevieve Nastassja Umperovitch would love this!
This is a treasure, thank you very much.
Impeccable.
Thanks for upload! Thank you so much!
You are very welcome.
This is a fantastic adaptation, production, and performance.
How delightful. A super presentation of Virginia Woolf and of her written word, by the great actress Eileen Atkins. Thank you for this gem.
Magnificent!
i have been listening juliet stevenson and tilda swinton’s versions on audible. this is a nice short version.
Powerful!
37:30 sums up so well why its important to hold on to the literary tradition- the literary canon (which has been brought into question with our post modern notions of doing away with the works of the past).
What a stupendous performance. Had to look up Keat's tombstone: 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'.
Such a good writer.
Excellent!!!
Very familiar with the Dinner menu same as I endured at boarding school.
Thanks Genevieve, the book is great but it's interesting to actually see the narration this way.
That Charlotte may have been more gifted than Jane, but C. wrote about herself while J. remained pure ... that hit me like thunder.
Dame Eileen also wrote the screenplay for the film of Mrs Dalloway with Vanessa Redgrave.
I didn't realise that there was a film of 'Mrs Dalloway'. I did enjoy 'The Hours' though, wonderful film.
@@genevievel5309 Yes, its on CZcams. Very good screenplay and performances.
@@genevievel5309 Thanks very much for sharing❤
The only thing I really know about Eileen Atkins is she played Mts. Bumble in Oliver Twist--and did a great job, too!
A wonderful tour-de-force performance and essay on why no one need fear Virginia Woolf or anyone like her. Sadly, now it is a mere echo of a long-vanished world .. not that of Virginia Woolf, there are plenty of those conceited souls even now, but that of Eileen Atkins. Yes, there are actresses today who put on a Port Out - Starboard Home accent or try to, but increasingly few who properly understand it and its place in what - being British - meant .. just casually, taken for granted, simply a necessary privilege (for the good of humankind, and not least that of 'Society', most especially among women of the right sort, possessing charm if not good looks, well-contained drive - enough for two, perhaps with some property or a modest income of her own right, or at very least - prospects, before her utilisable charms fade and her long-term utility with them).
;o)
However much I enjoyed Virginia Woolf's Lecture, I found discrepancies and contradictions between males' geniuses vs female geniuses in that how they had been derived and finally
expressed. I also was disappointed that American women authors/ poets were not mentioned. The presentation by Dame Atkins was wonderful.
Were you also disappointed that women writers from all over the English-speaking world were not mentioned: Canada, Australia, Barbados, New Zealand, Jamaica, etc etc, or indeed from nations where English is widely spoken: South Africa, India, many other African nations etc etc?
The purpose of Woolf's lecture wasn't simply to enumerate women who write in English, it was specifically about how the historic and contemporary position of women related to the position of female students at Girton at the time.
Woolf also mentions female characters written by non-British writers - Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary etc - because they are relevant to the theme of the lecture, and she mentions George Sands. She also mentions world female historical figures such as Cleopatra.
A strong theme is also to contemplate what would have happened if a sister of Shakespeare had had a similar talent; in the late 1500s/early 1600s there could have been no equivalent in America.
There are ringing resonances in Gaudy Night. I wonder if Dorothy Sayers heard these lectures.
I adore Gaudy Night!
I thought this was a splendid depiction of Woolf and her ideas when I first saw it many years ago...and despaired of ever finding it again. Thank you, and where did you find it, or did you upload it yourself?
I uploaded it, Graham, after transferring it from a tape I had onto DVD. It is a pity that the quality is not all that great but it is better than nothing. I am so glad that you enjoyed it.
Genevieve, thank you so much. I once had taped this on VHS, from TV......but lost it during a move. I have searched for years.....and was thrilled to find this tonight.
It's still being discovered.
I re-uploaded this video recently, to the surprise and delight of many people.
Very inspiring Dame Eileen makes words come alive
Does anyone know where I can get a copy on dvd?
Yes, copies are available from the following link but they are very expensive:
ffh.films.com/id/6213/Virginia_Woolf_A_Room_of_Ones_Own.htm
Privacy, luxury and leisure are things that marginalised can't afford
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Woolf´s deep reflexions could easily jump to "a World of One´s Own", as a "room" seems to have been too circumvented, too small for her. On the other hand, a "lighthouse" was perhaps too bright ? A garden too full of birds´uneven songs? What a brilliant mind ! But concluding that it all ended in "a River of One´s Own" remains too painful. To me, of course.
What happened to the audio???
I don't know. The sound is perfect on my laptop, but on my old desktop I have to physically turn up the speakers to get the sound right on this interview and on another one I posted about Alec Guinness. I hope that this works for you.
¿alguien sabe donde puedo verlo en español?
Sorry, I don't know.
An eloquent woman.......
24:56
English 206 required watching check
I hope Wolfe's nod to the emergence of the bourgeois woman survives. Capitalism has made it more feasible for all to secure the $500. And the room.
Eileen is i suspect demonstrating here the art of declamation, of rhetoric at its finest; perhaps that is the apex of acting, or perhaps it is the apex of non acting; i am not sure which; Saint Theresa of Avila, the Carmelite nun, lived in the sixteenth century and became one of only three (of 35 in all) female doctors of the Roman Catholic Church, no mean feat, along with Saint Catherine of Siena (lay Dominican (14th century), and Therese of Lisieux (19th century); women of grace equal to the argument that woman is no less the equal of man and even better as his perfect complement. Neither he nor she can help it that God created both as paradoxical complements in His image. The case is well made however, and eloquently declaimed by a singular actor of rare giftedness.
prunes and custard. what is this madness
Sounds delicious to me.
'... prunes with mitigating custard...' '... beef with its attendant greens and potatoes...' 😊
The elephant in the room here is that ill fitting man's suit that is distracting me uncomfortably. It may seem like a trivial thing to some, but to me it is speaking volumes. George Elliot and other women in the past may have used men's names as the authors of their books, but why on earth are we still donning a man's persona (including his clothes) to hide our own? When we finally learn to accept ourselves and display our unique beauty, talents, and intelligence then we can stop hiding behind men's masks, names, clothes and identities.
I don't really understand why Virginia Woolf is referred to as a genius. And a room of ones own was boorish claptrap, waffling on like a river going nowhere. If i had written an essay with opening lines as clumsy as this i would have stuck my mouth over that exhaust pipe a good deal sooner.
How mean spirited you are. It shows how impatient you were in understanding the context and how inept you are at following an idea.
@@barbaracook4764 do you feel just a tad ashamed? Condemning me to the gallows for my "harsh" comment, while yours is equally as harsh. You're all a bunch of quacking ducks following each other with all your wow words and songs of praise like weak minded peasants. If you knew anything about writing at all you'd know it is a gift, neither the result of intellect or genius. And Barbara Cook should change her name to SillyOldDuck. quawck squawk.
It wasn't Woolf's fault you lack understanding you, self-back-patting lame lil angwy man. You could've at least presented your prominence first rather than your pathetic superiority complex