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Shakespeare's tragedies, Clare R. Kinney

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Shakespeare's tragedies, Clare R. Kinney

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Shakespeare's tragedies

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153303186

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Clare R. Kinney

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Great courses

Summary

This course explores Shakespeare's six mature tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus

Table Of Contents

Part 1. Lecture 1: Defining tragedy -- Lecture 2: Shakespearean tragedy in context -- Lecture 3: Hamlet I--"Stand and unfold yourself" -- Lecture 4: Hamlet II--The performance of revenge -- Lecture 5: Hamlet III--Difficult women -- Lecture 6: Hamlet IV--Uncontainable Hamlet -- Lecture 7: Othello I--Miscegenation and mixed messages -- Lecture 8: Othello II--Monstrous births -- Lecture 9: Othello III--"Ocular proof" -- Lecture 10: Othello IV--Tragic knowledge -- Lecture 11: King Lear I--Kingship and kinship -- Lecture 12: King Lear II--"Unaccommodated man."Part 2. Lecture 13: King Lear III--The stage of fools -- Lecture 14: King Lear IV--"Is this the promised end?" -- Lecture 15: Macbeth I--Desire and equivocation -- Lecture 16: Macbeth II--"Dispute it like a man" -- Lecture 17: Macbeth III--Bloody babes and bloody ends -- Lecture 18: Antony and Cleopatra I--Epic desires -- Lecture 19: Antony and Cleopatra II--Identity politics -- Lecture 20: Antony and Cleopatra III--The art of dying -- Lecture 21: Coriolanus I--The loner and the mob -- Lecture 22: Coriolanus II--The theater of politics -- Lecture 23: Coriolanus III--Mothers and killers -- Lecture 24: Conclusion--Beyond tragedy?

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