DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

How to read and understand Shakespeare / the Teaching Company ; Marc C. Conner ; producer Anna Davalos, Sarah Katz ; director Jonathan Leven, Jim M. Allen.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2013]

©2013

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video

For over 400 years, Shakespeare's plays have enthralled, moved, and enriched each new generation of readers and theatergoers. This lecture series builds the skills that allow you to reach your own understanding of the plays, to deeply comprehend Shakespeare's transcendent poetic language, the spellbinding world of his great characters and stories, and his revelatory reflections on human experience. The tools you learn are yours for years of enjoyment of these monumental treasures of our culture.

Great courses. Literature & language (English literature)

Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. English literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Study and teaching.

Lectures.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Conner, Marc C., 1965- teacher, speaker.

Teaching Company, production company, publisher.

Course no. 2711.

Program contains twenty-four lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min.

Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.

Extra feature includes about the professor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) in course guidebook.

Editor, Tom Krzywicki, Richard Bernett, Steve Renard.

Lecturer: Professor Marc C. Conner, Washington and Lee University.

DVD, NTSC.

In English.

Approaching Shakespeare ; the scene begins -- Shakespeare's theater and stagecraft -- Midsummer Night's Dream ; comic tools -- Midsummer Night's Dream ; comic structure -- Romeo and Juliet ; words, words, words -- Romeo and Juliet ; the tools of tragedy -- Appearance versus reality in Twelfth Night -- Twelfth Night ; more comic tools -- Richard II ; history and kingship -- Politics as theater in Henry IV, part 1 -- Henry IV, part 2 ; contrast and complexity -- Drama of ideas in Henry V -- Macbeth ; "foul and fair" -- Tragic woman in Macbeth -- Staging Hamlet -- Religious drama of Hamlet -- Women of Hamlet -- Merchant of Venice ; comedy or tragedy? -- Arc of character in the Merchant of Venice -- Measure for Measure ; is this comedy? -- Measure for Measure ; overcoming tragedy -- Tools of romance in The Tempest -- Tempest ; Shakespeare's farewell to art -- Tools for a lifetime of Shakespeare.

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