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Joseph Fiennes Visits a Class on Iambic Pentameter

Joseph Fiennes listens in on a Shakespeare session at a South London evening class. Bruce Wall has taught Shakespeare across the world. His students include city bankers, Broadway actors and several thousand prisoners. In this class, he's teaching the group how to think in Iambic Pentameter, the classic five stress rhythm of Shakespearian text.

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