Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 3Based on the teaching of Professor Mary HolmesTopics:Judgments of ArtTalking about ArtWhat Makes a Work of Art Great?Questions? Email [email protected]
Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 2Based on the teaching of Professor Mary HolmesTopics:Paradox 2: Escape and ReturnParadox 3: I and WeParadox 4: Integrity and ChangeThe Power of ArtThe Goal of ArtQuestions? Email DoctorRap@zohom
Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 1Based on the teaching of Professor Mary HolmesSession 1 Topics: Why Art? What is Art? How Art Works Paradox 1: Empathy and Psychic DistanceThe Willing Suspension of DisbeliefQuestions? Email Doc
Series I, Chapter 14: Hypothetical, Spurious, and False ShakespeareHypothetical: Love's Labour's Won, CardenioSpurious: Hecate passages in MacbethFalse Attributions: "The Passionate Pilgrim," Arden of Feversham, "Shall I Die?" A Funeral ElegyNo
Series I, Chapter 13: Did Shakespeare Collaborate?Edward IIIPericlesHenry VIIIThe Two Noble KinsmenSir Thomas MoreReferences are to the following:Melchiori, Giorgio, ed. The New Cambridge Shakespeare: King Edward III (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni
Series II, Podcast W: The TempestShakespeare's most mystical play.References are to the following: C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964, repr. 1967), Chapter VI; C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (New Yor
Series I, Chapter 12: Shakespeare's Other PoemsVenus and AdonisThe Rape of LucreceThe Phoenix and the TurtleA Lover's ComplaintNotes:I have taken some facts and quotations from the following: On The Rape of Lucrece: Hallett Smith, Introduction
Series II, Podcast T: Henry VPageantShakespeare's Ideal KingBanishment of FalstaffNote: The Thompson quotation is from Philip Thompson, Notes on Shakespeare in Gideon Rappaport, ed., Dusk and Dawn: Poetry and Prose of Philip Thompson (San Dieg
Series II, Podcast S: Henry IV, Part IIPromise Fulfilled: Prince Hal becomes King Henry VDefense of Prince JohnFalstaff's BanishmentNote: The Thompson quotation is from Notes on Shakespeare in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of
Series II, Podcast R: Henry IV, Part IThree metaphorical heirs to the throne: Hal, Hotspur, FalstaffTwo excessive humors and Plato's three soulsPrince Hal's CharacterQuestions? Email [email protected]
Series II, Podcast P: Richard IIIScourge of God"Despair and Die"End of the Wars of the RosesNotes: Two quotations come from Anthony Hammond, Introduction to King Richard III, The Arden Shakespeare (London: Methuen, 1981): The More description i
Series II, Podcast O: Introduction to Shakespeare's History PlaysNotes: The Thompson quotations are from “Notes on Shakespeare” in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Goo
Series I, Chapter 11: What Is a Sonnet For?What is a poem?What is a sonnet?Shakespeare's SonnetsDid Shakespeare really mean it?How long did it take him to write one?To whom did he write them?Was Shakespeare gay?Notes: The Robert Frost quotation
Series II, Podcast N: Antony and CleopatraRome and EgyptReason and PassionParticulars and the Universal5 Key Lines12 Specific NotesNotes: The Thompson quotation is from Reflections (Literary and Philosophical) in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn:
Series II, Podcast M: MacbethA short discussion followed by 9 key lines and 13 specific notes to help in your reading.Note: Biblical quotations are from the Geneva BibleQuestions? Email [email protected]
Series I, Chapter 10: What Kind of Thing Is It? Categories of PlaysSession 2: Histories, Romances, SatireHistoriesRomancesOne SatireFalse Category: Problem PlaysNotes: The Halliday quotation is from F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1
Series I, Chapter 10: What Kind of Thing Is It? Categories of PlaysSession1: Tragedies and ComediesRevenge TragediesDe Casibus TragediesDomestic TragediesComic ReliefNotes: The quotation from Morton Bloomfield is from a from a lecture series e
Series II, Podcast K: OthelloPsychomachiaDemonic Iago, Angelic DesdemonaRepentance vs. Suicide3 Key Lines6 Specific NotesNotes:The quotation of Thomas Mann is from Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers, tr. John E. Woods (New York: Alfred A. Kn