Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap

Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 3

Based on the teaching of Professor Mary Holmes

Topics:

Judgments of Art
Talking about Art
What Makes a Work of Art Great?

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Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 2

Based on the teaching of Professor Mary Holmes

Topics:
Paradox 2: Escape and Return
Paradox 3: I and We
Paradox 4: Integrity and Change
The Power of Art
The Goal of Art

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Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 1

Based on the teaching of Professor Mary Holmes

Session 1 Topics: 

Why Art? 
What is Art? 
How Art Works 
Paradox 1: Empathy and Psychic Distance
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief

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Series II, Podcast Z: Selected Sonnets 129-146

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135
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144
146

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Series II, Podcast Y: Selected Sonnets 73-116

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94
116

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Series II, Podcast X: Selected Sonnets 1-65

1-17
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55
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65

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Series I, Chapter 14: Hypothetical, Spurious, and False Shakespeare

Hypothetical: Love's Labour's Won, Cardenio
Spurious: Hecate passages in Macbeth
False Attributions: "The Passionate Pilgrim," Arden of Feversham, "Shall I Die?" A Funeral Elegy


Notes:

References are to the following:
F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964 (Baltimore:  Penguin Books, 1964), pp. 289, 83–84, 491–92;
Jonathan Bate, “Is there a lost Shakespeare in your attic?” in The Telegraph, April 21, 2007, accessed 8/13/18 at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664626/Is-there-a-lost-Shakespeare-in-your-attic.html;
G. Blakemore Evans, Note on the Text of Macbeth, in The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Ed., (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), pp. 1387–88;
Frank Kermode, Introduction to Macbeth in the same Riverside edition, pp. 1355–56;
Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Passionate Pilgrim in The Riverside Shakespeare, p. 1881;
MacDonald P. Jackson, Determining the Shakespeare Canon: Arden of Faversham and A Lover’s Complaint (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2014);
MacDonald P. Jackson, “Shakespeare and the Quarrel Scene in “Arden of Faversham,” Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Autumn, 2006), pp. 249–93;
Arden of Feversham, ed. Ronald Bayne (London: J.M. Dent, 1897) reproduced on line and accessed (8/21/18) at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43440/43440-0.txt;
Gary Taylor, “Shakespeare’s New Poem:  A Scholar’s Clues and Conclusions,” New York Times, December 15, 1985, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/15/books/shakespeare-s-new-poem-a-scholar-s-clues-and-conclusions.html;
Donald Foster, Letter to the New York Times, January 19, 1986, accessed on 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/19/books/l-a-new-shakespeare-poem-238486.html;
G.D. Monsarrat, “A Funeral Elegy:  Ford, W.S., and Shakespeare” in The Review of English Studies New Series, Vol. 53, No. 210 (May, 2002), pp. 186-203, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/3070371?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents;
William S. Niederkorn, “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery,” New York Times, August 21, 2002, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/arts/a-scholar-recants-on-his-shakespeare-discovery.html.

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Series I, Chapter 13: Did Shakespeare Collaborate?

Edward III
Pericles
Henry VIII
The Two  Noble Kinsmen
Sir Thomas More

References are to the following:

Melchiori, Giorgio, ed. The New Cambridge Shakespeare: King Edward III (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 12–13; Hallett Smith, Introduction to Pericles, Prince of Tyre in G. Blakemore Evans, ed., The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Ed. (Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1997), p. 1527; Jonathan Bate, “Is there a lost Shakespeare in your attic?” in The Telegraph, April 21, 2007, accessed 8/13/18 at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664626/Is-there-a-lost-Shakespeare-in-your-attic.html; J. Spedding, “Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Henry VIII?” Gentleman’s Magazine, clxxviii (August–October 1850), pp. 115–24 and 381–82, quoted and ref. in R.A. Foakes, ed., King Henry VIII The Arden Edition, (Cambridge:  Methuen and Harvard University Press, Third Ed, 1957, Repr. 1966), pp. xvii; Cyrus Hoy, “The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (vii),” Studies in Bibliography, xv (1962), p. 79, quoted and ref. in R.A. Foakes, ed. King Henry VIII, pp. xxvii–xxviii; Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Two Noble Kinsmen in The Riverside Shakespeare, p. 1689; G. Blakemore Evans, Introduction to Sir Thomas More: The Additions Ascribed to Shakespeare, in The  Riverside Shakespeare, pp. 1775–79.

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Series II, Podcast W: The Tempest

Shakespeare's most mystical play.


References are to the following:  C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964, repr. 1967), Chapter VI; C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (New York: HarperCollins, 2001, orig. copyright 1944), pp. 77–78; Frank Kermode, ed., Arden edition of The Tempest (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 6th ed., 1958), Intro. pp. xxxv–xxxvii, pp. liii–liv, and Appendix B, p. 143.

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Series II, Podcast V: The Winter's Tale

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Series II, Podcast U: Troilus and Cressida

Shakespeare's one satire, on the matter of Troy.

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Series I, Chapter 12: Shakespeare's Other Poems

Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint

Notes:
I have taken some facts and quotations from the following: 

On The Rape of Lucrece: Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Rape of Lucrece in G. Glakemore Evans, ed., The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Edition (Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1997), p. 1814, 1815; and F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion (Baltimore:  Penguin, 1964), p. 402. On A Lover’s Complaint: Robert Giroux, The Book Known as Q:  A Consideration of Shakepeare’s Sonnets (New York:  Atheneum, 1982), p. 210, 211; Brian Vickers, “Did Shakespeare write A Lover’s Complaint?” accessed 8/13/18 at https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare/1026#ftn1; see the technical argument in MacDonald P. Jackson, “A Lover’s Complaint and the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic” in Early Modern Literary Studies accessed 8/19/18 at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/article/viewFile/67/22; see the broader argument in MacDonald P. Jackson, Determining the Shakespeare Canon:  Arden of Faversham and A Lover’s Complaint (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2014).

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Series II, Podcast T: Henry V

Pageant
Shakespeare's Ideal King
Banishment of Falstaff


Note: The Thompson quotation  is from Philip Thompson, Notes on Shakespeare in Gideon Rappaport, ed., Dusk and Dawn: Poetry and Prose of Philip Thompson (San Diego: One Mind Good Presss, 2005), p. 228. 

Series II, Podcast S: Henry IV, Part II

Promise Fulfilled: Prince Hal becomes King Henry V
Defense of Prince John
Falstaff's Banishment

Note: The Thompson quotation is from Notes on Shakespeare in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 221, 227. 

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Series II, Podcast R: Henry IV, Part I

Three metaphorical heirs to the throne: Hal, Hotspur, Falstaff
Two excessive humors and Plato's three souls
Prince Hal's Character

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Series II, Podcast Q: Richard II

Chiasmus
Right vs. Merit
The Beginning of the Wars of the Roses

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Series II, Podcast P: Richard III

Scourge of God
"Despair and Die"
End of the Wars of the Roses

Notes: Two quotations come from Anthony Hammond, Introduction to King Richard III, The Arden Shakespeare (London: Methuen, 1981): The More description is on p. 78; the Spivack quotations (citing Bernard Spivack, Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil [New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1958], pp. 135, 151, 157, 161–62) are on p. 100. The Paradin quotation appears in the same Arden edition on p. 339 in Appendix II, note to III.iv.32.

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Series II, Podcast O: Introduction to Shakespeare's History Plays


Notes: The Thompson quotations are from “Notes on Shakespeare” in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 221, 227. The Robie Macauley quotation is from his introduction to Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End  (New York: Knopf, 1961), p. ix.

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Series I, Chapter 11: What Is a Sonnet For?

What is a poem?
What is a sonnet?
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Did Shakespeare really mean it?
How long did it take him to write one?
To whom did he write them?
Was Shakespeare gay?

Notes: The Robert Frost quotation is from Newsweek, January 30, 1956, p. 56, accessed 7/5/18 at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/frost-tennis.html. The Hecht quotation is from Anthony Hecht, Introduction to G. Blakemore Evans, Ed., The Sonnets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, repr. 1998), p. 15. The Dickinson quotation is from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), L342a, quoted at https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/later_years.

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Series II, Podcast N: Antony and Cleopatra

Rome and Egypt
Reason and Passion
Particulars and the Universal

5 Key Lines
12 Specific Notes


Notes: The Thompson quotation is from Reflections (Literary and Philosophical) in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 187. The quotation from Sir John Hawkins can be accessed at https://archive.org/details/playspoemsofwill12shak/page/364/mode/2up.

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