The Winter's Tale. Intro. Study Guide Prepared by Michael J. Cummings ... 2003 Revised in 2010 . Type of Work {*style:<b><b>Key Dates </b> <b>Date Written: </b> 1610 or 1611. <b>First Performance: </b> Probably May 15, 1611, at the Globe Theatre. <b>First Publication </b>: 1623 as part of the First Folio, the first authorized collection of Shakespeare's plays.
{*style:<b><b>Settings </b> Harvard Video Lecture. Course Description : This course focuses on Shakespeares later plays beginning with Measure for Measure and ending with The Tempest.
Building on the discussions of individual plays in Marjorie Garbers book Shakespeare After All, this course takes note of key themes, issues, and interpretations of the plays, focusing on questions of genre, gender, politics, family relations, silence and speech, and cultural power from both above and below (royalty, nobility, and the court; clowns and fools). Designed as part lecture-presentation and part discussion, this is a course that is meant to be interactive, taking up topics generated by students as well as by the instructor. We discuss a play each week, along with the relevant critical reading. Other Resources : These video lectures are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License by Harvard University. Other Other Courses Courses.
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Study Guide Prepared by Michael J. Cummings...© 2003Revised in 2010 © .Type of Work .......The Tempest is a comedy with an atmosphere resembling that of a fairy tale. Harvard Video Lecture. Course Description : This course focuses on Shakespeares later plays beginning with Measure for Measure and ending with The Tempest.
Building on the discussions of individual plays in Marjorie Garbers book Shakespeare After All, this course takes note of key themes, issues, and interpretations of the plays, focusing on questions of genre, gender, politics, family relations, silence and speech, and cultural power from both above and below (royalty, nobility, and the court; clowns and fools). Designed as part lecture-presentation and part discussion, this is a course that is meant to be interactive, taking up topics generated by students as well as by the instructor. We discuss a play each week, along with the relevant critical reading.
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Cummings ... 2003 Revised in 2010 . Type of Play ....... Is a stage play in the form of a comedy. Harvard Video Lecture. Course Description : This course focuses on Shakespeares later plays beginning with Measure for Measure and ending with The Tempest.
Building on the discussions of individual plays in Marjorie Garbers book Shakespeare After All, this course takes note of key themes, issues, and interpretations of the plays, focusing on questions of genre, gender, politics, family relations, silence and speech, and cultural power from both above and below (royalty, nobility, and the court; clowns and fools). Designed as part lecture-presentation and part discussion, this is a course that is meant to be interactive, taking up topics generated by students as well as by the instructor.
We discuss a play each week, along with the relevant critical reading. Other Resources : These video lectures are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License by Harvard University. Other Other Courses Courses » check out the complete list of Other Courses lectures. Much Ado about Nothing. Intro. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Intro. Study Guide Prepared by Michael J. Cummings ... © 2003 This page has been revised, enlarged, and moved to ....... Is a stage play in the form for a comedy. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Intro. ....... Is a comedy, or farce. It resembles in that it relies heavily on mix-ups and slapstick to win the guffaws of the audience. In this respect, the play resembles an American television staple, the situation comedy.
It even has the types of characters that appear in American TV sitcoms: everyday middle-class folks. The Merchant of Venice. Intro. Cummings Guides Home..|..Shakespeare Books.
This page has been revised, enlarged, and moved to Type of Work .......Although the play is considered a comedy, it is probably better categorized as a tragicomedy (a play with both comic and tragic elements). As a comedy, the play focuses on Christians whose problems have a happy resolution. As a tragedy, the play focuses on the downfall of a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, who is forced at the end to become a Christian and to forfeit property. Comprehensive Search through works. Measure for Measure. Intro. .......
Vincentio, Duke of Vienna, is a good and kindly ruler. However, he has been lenient to a fault. Consequently, vice has thrived in his city for nineteen years. So he decides to leave town for a while to allow his stern chief deputy, Angelo, to run the government, assisted by the dukeu0092s counselor, Escalus. Vincentio plans to return to town in disguise to observe how the city fares under Angelou0092s rule. Harvard Video Lecture. eBook: Measure for Measure. Love's Labour's Lost. Intro. Cummings Guides Home..|..Contact This Site..|..Shakespeare Videos..|..Shakespeare Books. ..Plot SummaryBy Michael J.
Cummings...© 2003. ........King Ferdinand of Navarre and three of his lordsu0096Dumain, Longaville, and Berowne (also called Berowne in some editions of Shakespeareu0092s plays)u0096decide to abandon the pleasures of the world for three years to pursue knowledge and keep company only with books in order to gain everlasting fame as scholars. The king says, u0093Our court shall be a little Academe / Still and contemplative in living artu0094 (1. 2. 14-15). Ferdinand has drawn up a contract outlining the conditions under which they are to live. The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bitsMake rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. (1. 1. 27-29)
The Comedy of Errors. Intro. Cummings Guides Home..|..Contact This Site..|..Shakespeare Books. ..Study Guide Prepared by Michael J. Cummings...© 2003Revised in 2010..©. Type of Work .......The play is a comedy that veers toward farce and burlesque. It is sometimes classified as a "comedy of intrigue" or a "comedy of situation. " Key Dates.Date Written: Early 1590's. Sources .......Shakespeare based the plot on The Menaechmus Twins, by Plautus (254? Setting........The action of the play takes place in Ephesus (in present-day western Turkey, near Izmir), an important Greek trading center in ancient times. As You Like It. Intro. Study Guide Prepared by Michael J. Cummings ... 2003 Revised in 2010 Type of Work. Lecture Topics. Custom Search.
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