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How to Read and Understand Shakespeare

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Overview

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

Syllabus

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  • 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

Taught by

Marc C. Conner

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