Experiencing Shakespeare: From Page to Stage
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
<p>Experience Shakespeare’s plays from the other side of the stage with a rare peek behind the curtain to see how productions are brought to life for the modern audience.</p>
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Reading versus Watching Shakespeare
- 02: Plays in the Elizabethan Age
- 03: Secrets of Shakespeare’s Verse
- 04: Discovering Shakespeare’s Characters
- 05: Shakespearean Rhetoric and Wordplay
- 06: What Soliloquies Reveal
- 07: How Shakespeare Uses Prose
- 08: Shakespeare’s Creative Imagery
- 09: Rehearsing the Role: Shakespeare’s Tragedies
- 10: Rehearsing the Role: Shakespeare’s Comedies
- 11: Designing and Directing Shakespeare’s Plays
- 12: To the Stage!
Taught by
Alissa Branch
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