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Experiencing Shakespeare: From Page to Stage

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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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

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  • 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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