TTC Video Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies introduces the plays of Shakespeare and explains the achievement that makes Shakespeare the leading playwright in Western civilization. The key to that achievement is his abundance, says Professor Saccio not only in the number and length of his plays, but also in the variety of experiences they depict, the multitude of actions and characters they contain, the combination of public and private life they deal with, the richness of feelings they express and can provoke in an audience and in readers, and the fullness of language and suggestion.
Stories from Shakespeare - Penguin Readers Level 3
Classic / British English These are the stories of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There is a greedy money-lender, a fairy king and queen, some Roman politicians and a young prince who meets the ghost of his murdered father
8 lectures on 8 audio cassettes. Lecture 1: Shakespeare and Stratford; lecture 2: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theater; Lecture 3: Shakespeare and English history: Richard II; Lecture 4: kings and Commoners: Henry IV 1 & 2 and Henry V; Lecture 5: Twelfth Night and Shakespearean Comedy; Lecture 6: the Merchant of Venice and the Reinterpretation of Shakespeare; Lecture 7: Hamlet and the Perplexing World; Lecture 8: King Lear
The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the actor and businessman from Stratford-upon-Avon, was the author. Legendary figures such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Sigmund Freud have all expressed grave doubts that an uneducated man who apparently owned no books and never left England wrote plays and poems that consistently reflect a learned and well-traveled insider's perspective on royal courts and the ancient feudal nobility.
An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind". - Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar - Discusses an array of topics, including politics and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, and closure - Explores Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind"
