Once I showed five different Othellos (one act each, which got a little dicey with Welles's order of things) and had the students do an annotated bibliography with comments on each performance:
Welles
Olivier
Fishburne
Marshall
Hopkins
I've since done the same with Hamlet, choosing from
Olivier
Branagh
Burton
Williamson
Gibson
Hawke
Usually works pretty well, with some overlaps.
These days I show one act apiece from four versions of Long Day's Journey into Night.
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