TED-Ed
You’re invited to the masquerade. Do you dare attend? - Iseult Gillespie
2026 • E38 May 14, 2026 7m
Looking to avoid the plague devastating his country, Prince Prospero summons a thousand nobles from his court and sequesters them in his abbey. Months into their seclusion, the Prince throws a lavish masquerade ball held in seven colored rooms. But amidst the revelry, a mysterious shrouded figure appears. Iseult Gillespie shares Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story, “The Masque of the Red Death.”
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Mohammad Babakoohi, Yijia Cao.
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Mohammad Babakoohi, Yijia Cao.