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  • William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories and Tragedies

    (By Peter Saccio)

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    Author Peter Saccio
    “Book Descriptions: Professor Peter Saccio—an award-winning Ivy League Professor of Shakespeare studies—is your guide for this marvelous exploration of 15 of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Learn how our most abundant poet and dramatist has been moving, delighting, and enlightening readers and audiences for 400 years, with no end in sight.

    Lecture Titles:
    1. Shakespeare Then and Now
    2. The Nature of Shakespeare's Plays
    3. Twelfth Night—Shakespearean Comedy
    4. Twelfth Night—Malvolio in Love
    5. The Taming of the Shrew—Getting Married in the 1590s
    6. The Taming of the Shrew—Farce and Romance
    7. The Merchant of Venice—Courting the Heiress
    8. The Merchant of Venice—Shylock
    9. Measure for Measure—Sex in Society
    10. Measure for Measure—Justice and Comedy
    11. Richard III—Shakespearean History
    12. Richard III—The Villain's Career
    13. Richard II—The Theory of Kingship
    14. Richard II—The Fall of the King
    15. Henry IV—All the King's Men
    16. Henry IV—The Life of Falstaff
    17. Henry V—The Death of Falstaff
    18. Henry V—The King Victorious
    19. Romeo and Juliet—Shakespearean Tragedy
    20. Romeo and Juliet—Public Violence and Private Bliss;
    21. Troilus and Cressida—Ancient Epic in a New Mode
    22. Troilus and Cressida—Heroic Aspirations
    23. Julius Caesar—The Matter of Rome
    24. Julius Caesar—Heroes of History
    25. Hamlet—The Abundance of the Play
    26. Hamlet—The Causes of Tragedy
    27. Hamlet—The Protestant Hero
    28. Othello—The Design of the Tragedy
    29. Othello—“O Villainy!”
    30. Othello—“The Noble Moor”
    31. King Lear—“This Is the Worst”
    32. King Lear—Wisdom Through Suffering
    33. King Lear—“Then We Go On”
    34. Macbeth—“Fair Is Foul”
    35. Macbeth—Musing on Murder
    36. Macbeth—“Enter Two Murderers””

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