Harvard Extension School free online Shakespeare course focuses on Shakespeare’s later plays beginning with Measure for Measure and ending with The Tempest. Building on the discussions of individual plays in Marjorie Garber’s 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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PLAY VIDEOS
Harvard: Shakespeare After All: The Later Plays - CosmoLearning.com English Course
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Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 1: Introduction - 1:54:28
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 2: Troilus and Cressida - 1:55:35
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 3: Measure for Measure - 1:49:30
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 4: Othello - 1:48:17
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 5: King Lear - 1:50:48
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 6: Macbeth - 1:47:27
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 7: Antony and Cleopatra - 1:51:02
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 8: Coriolanus - 1:52:24
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 9: Pericles - 1:42:07
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 10: Cymbeline - 1:46:29
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 11: The Winter’s Tale - 1:50:41
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 12: The Tempest - 1:47:53
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 13: Plenary - Review session
