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From:	Tamra_p (75.36.24.20)
Subject:	Teaching Company Shakespeare:The Word & the Action
Date:	April 17, 2008 at 1:37 pm PST

Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies introduces the plays of Shakespeare and explains the achievement that makes Shakespeare the leading playwright in Western civilization. The key to that achievement is his "abundance," says Professor Saccio—not only in the number and length of his plays, but also in the variety of experiences they depict, the multitude of actions and characters they contain, the combination of public and private life they deal with, the richness of feelings they express and can provoke in an audience and in readers, and the fullness of language and suggestion.

Introduction: Lectures 1 and 2

The first two lectures consider how Shakespeare's plays have been valued by four centuries of readers, and how they have been interpreted and reinterpreted by the generations who have read and seen them.

The lectures also consider the kind of theater for which he wrote, the characteristic structures of his plays, and the way the plays easily mingle events from different realms: different social levels, different levels of realism, and different metaphysical contexts.

The course then considers the plays in terms of genre.

This 1999 edition taught by Professor Peter Saccio is in like new condition from a dander and smoke free home.

There are 6 DVDs consisting of 36 half-hour lectures, and 3 Guide Books (no writing).

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