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How to Read and Understand Shakespeare
2013
Features
Marc Conner Ph.D.
Supplier
The Great Courses
In This Series

Episode 1
Approaching Shakespeare—The Scene Begins

Episode 2
Shakespeare’s Theater and Stagecraft

Episode 3
A Midsummer Night’s Dream—Comic Tools

Episode 4
A Midsummer Night’s Dream—Comic Structure

Episode 5
Romeo and Juliet—Words, Words, Words

Episode 6
Romeo and Juliet—The Tools of Tragedy

Episode 7
Appearance versus Reality in Twelfth Night

Episode 8
Twelfth Night—More Comic Tools

Episode 9
Richard II—History and Kingship

Episode 10
Politics as Theater in Henry IV, Part I

Episode 11
Henry IV, Part 2—Contrast and Complexity

Episode 12
The Drama of Ideas in Henry V

Episode 13
Macbeth—“Foul and Fair”

Episode 14
The Tragic Woman in Macbeth

Episode 15
Staging Hamlet

Episode 16
The Religious Drama of Hamlet

Episode 17
The Women of Hamlet

Episode 18
The Merchant of Venice—Comedy or Tragedy?

Episode 19
The Arc of Character in The Merchant of Venice

Episode 20
Measure for Measure—Is This Comedy?

Episode 21
Measure for Measure—Overcoming Tragedy

Episode 22
Tools of Romance in The Tempest

Episode 23
The Tempest—Shakespeare’s Farewell to Art

Episode 24
The Tools for a Lifetime of Shakespeare