SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Video lecture series in 13 parts. A free online Shakespeare course delivered by Marjorie Garber at Harvard University in 2007 focusing on Shakespeare’s later plays beginning with Measure for Measure and ending with The Tempest. Building on the discussions of individual plays in Garber’s book Shakespeare After All, the 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.

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Multimedia; Video

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Recording date

2007

Credits

Contributor

Marjorie Garber

Additional Details

Production type

Documentary/Educational/News

Plays

Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus; Cymbeline; King Lear; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; Othello; Tempest, The; Troilus and Cressida; Winter’s Tale, The

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

Site accessed June 2015.