Kit

The Great Courses : How to Read and Understand Shakespeare / with Professor Marc C. Conner.

Record details

ISBN: 9781629971537 (set)
Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 1,080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2012]
Copyright: ©2012

General Note:	Kit includes: course guidebook (includes an outline for each lecture, a glossary, biographical notes, and a bibliography), as well as four DVD with lectures.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (Course guidebook, pages. 219-228).
Formatted Contents Note:	Disc 1: Approaching Shakespeare--The Scene Begins; Shakespeare's Theater and Stagecraft; A Midsummernight's Dream--Comic Tools; A Midsummernight's Dream--Comic Structure; Romeo and Juliet--Words, Words, Words; Romeo and Juliet--The Tools of Tragedy. Disc 2: Appearence versus Reality in Twelfth Night; Twelfth Night--Comic Tools; Richard II--History and Kingship; Politics as Theater in Henry IV Part 1; The Drama of Ideas in Henry V. Disc 3: Macbeth--"Foul and Fair"; The Tragic Women in Macbeth; Staging Hamlet; The Religious Drama of Hamlet; The Women of Hamlet; The Merchany of Venice--Comedy or Tragedy? Disc 4: The Arc of Character in Merchant of Venice; Measure for Measure--Is This Comedy?; Measure for Measure--Overcoming Tragedy; Tools of Romance in The Tempest; The Tempest--Shakespeare's Farewell to Art;tThe Tools for a Lifetime of Shakespeare.
Participant or Performer Note:	Taught by Professor Marc C. Conner.