Syllabus and Schedule

Lectures

Lecture 1: Shakespeare's life

Lecture 2: Sonnet form, meter 

Lecture 3: Elizabethan Theater

Lecture 4: Midsummer Night's Dream, language and worlds

Lecture 5: Midsummer: Love, Politics, Transgression and Art

Lecture 6: Comedy Techniques, Social Function and the Great Chain of Being

Lecture 7: Twelfth Night Comedy, Types and Targets

Lecture 8: Twelfth Night, gender and disguise

Lecture 9: People and History in Henry IV

Lecture 10: Ways of looking at Henry IV part 1

Lecture 11: Macbeth, historical contexts and structure

Lecture 12: Macbeth, characters, psychology, images

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