Learn to fully appreciate Shakespeare with this utterly unique course outlining over 40 interpretive tools that reveal his unsurpassed genius.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
