Renaissance Literature Courses and Certifications

Julius Caesar: Help & Review

Review Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar through character studies, act summaries, historical context, and literary analysis.

• Study.com
• 17 hours 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Macbeth by William Shakespeare Study Guide

Review Shakespeare's Macbeth: historical context, themes and setting, character analysis, literary devices, key quotes and monologues, and act-by-act summaries.

• Study.com
• 13 hours 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Study Guide

Analyze Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream through its themes, literary devices, characters, relationships, quotations, and act summaries.

• Study.com
• 15 hours 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

9 ratings at OpenLearn

What does Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus tell us about the author and the time at which the play was written? This free course, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, will help you to ...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

3 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, concentrates on Acts 1 and 2 of John Webster's Renaissance tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi. It focuses on the representation of marriage for love...

• OpenLearn
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Shakespeare on the Page and in Performance: Tragic Love

1 rating

Explore Shakespeare's mature plays of tragic love, Othello and King Lear, and learn what makes them so powerful and enduring.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Exploring Renaissance Sensibilities in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and John Webster

Explore how humanism, ambition, power, morality, and knowledge shape Renaissance drama in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Webster.

• Swayam
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

NPTEL;  Delhi University

The Renaissance and Shakespeare

Explore Shakespeare’s plays through historical context, performances, and global adaptations, from Renaissance Europe and Elizabethan England to contemporary stages.

• YouTube
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

American Renaissance: Classic Literature of the 19th Century

23 ratings at Coursera

Trace nineteenth-century American literature through Emerson, Douglass, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Twain, and the historical turning points that forged an American literary tradition.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 7 courses

莎士比亚名剧赏析

以文艺复兴背景为切入点，深入赏析《皆大欢喜》等五部莎士比亚名剧。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The American Renaissance: Classic Literature of the 19th Century

1 rating

Explore the writings of famous American authors from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mark Twain, and examine the historic role Dartmouth College played in their formation.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry - Session 1

Explore Philip Sidney's defense of poetry in this insightful analysis of "An Apology for Poetry," examining its historical context and literary significance.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry - Session 4

Explore Philip Sidney's defense of poetry, examining key arguments and literary concepts in this critical Renaissance text.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry - Session 3

Explore Philip Sidney's defense of poetry, examining key arguments and literary concepts in this critical Renaissance text.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

EFLU;  CEC

Shakespeare to Milton: A Study of British Literature

Survey British literature from Shakespeare to Milton through Renaissance and Puritan-era drama, tragedy, epic, sonnet, and metaphysical poetry.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course