How to Read and Understand Shakespeare (Great Courses) (Teaching Company) DVD (Course Number 2711) (Teaching Company The Great Courses)

9781598039283: How to Read and Understand Shakespeare (Great Courses) (Teaching Company) DVD (Course Number 2711) (Teaching Company The Great Courses)

ISBN 10: 1598039288 ISBN 13: 9781598039283

24 Lectures 1Approaching Shakespeare-The Scene Begins 2Shakespeare's Theater and Stagecraft 3A Midsummer Night's Dream-Comic Tools 4A Midsummer Night's Dream-Comic Structure 5Romeo and Juliet-Words, Words, Words 6Romeo and Juliet-The Tools of Tragedy 7Appearance versus Reality in Twelfth Night 8Twelfth Night-More Comic Tools 9Richard II-History and Kingship 10Politics as Theater in Henry IV, Part I 11Henry IV, Part 2-Contrast and Complexity 12The Drama of Ideas in Henry V 13Macbeth-"Foul and Fair" 14The Tragic Woman in Macbeth 15Staging Hamlet 16The Religious Drama of Hamlet 17The Women of Hamlet 18The Merchant of Venice-Comedy or Tragedy? 19The Arc of Character in The Merchant of Venice 20Measure for Measure-Is This Comedy? 21Measure for Measure-Overcoming Tragedy 22Tools of Romance in The Tempest 23The Tempest-Shakespeare's Farewell to Art 24The Tools for a Lifetime of Shakespeare

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