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How to Read and Understand Shakespeare

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Languages

English
Effort

12 hours 23 minutes
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Intermediate

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Learn to fully appreciate Shakespeare with this utterly unique course outlining over 40 interpretive tools that reveal his unsurpassed genius.

Syllabus

01: Approaching Shakespeare-The Scene Begins
02: Shakespeare's Theater and Stagecraft
03: A Midsummer Night's Dream-Comic Tools
04: A Midsummer Night's Dream-Comic Structure
05: Romeo and Juliet-Words, Words, Words
06: Romeo and Juliet-The Tools of Tragedy
07: Appearance versus Reality in Twelfth Night
08: Twelfth Night-More Comic Tools
09: Richard II-History and Kingship
10: Politics as Theater in Henry IV, Part I
11: Henry IV, Part 2-Contrast and Complexity
12: The Drama of Ideas in Henry V
13: Macbeth- “Foul and Fair”
14: The Tragic Woman in Macbeth
15: Staging Hamlet
16: The Religious Drama of Hamlet
17: The Women of Hamlet
18: The Merchant of Venice-Comedy or Tragedy?
19: The Arc of Character in The Merchant of Venice
20: Measure for Measure-Is This Comedy?
21: Measure for Measure-Overcoming Tragedy
22: Tools of Romance in The Tempest
23: The Tempest-Shakespeare's Farewell to Art
24: The Tools for a Lifetime of Shakespeare
By This Professor

Taught by

Marc C. Conner

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