![]() ![]() The tools you learn are yours for years of enjoyment of these monumental treasures of our culture. These guiding principles allow you to follow the narratives of the plays as they unfold, with a clear understanding of how the plays function and fit together. Conner of Washington and Lee University, you can learn a set of interpretive tools, drawn from the texts themselves, that give you direct insight into Shakespeare's plays. Now, in the 24 revealing lectures of How to Read and Understand Shakespeare by award-winning Professor Marc C. His language and culture-those of Elizabethan England, 400 years ago-are greatly different from our own, and his poetry, thick with metaphorical imagery and double meanings, can be hard to penetrate. But, simply put, Shakespeare is difficult. Shakespeare enjoys near-universal agreement among scholars as well as the general public that his works are among the greatest of humanity's cultural expressions, and that we all should know and understand them. This is a fun course, a very good fun course, but I would have preferred a more serious tone. The professor is very animated, and I think that this too distracts from the educational seriousness. This course also gives the impression of being tailored for a younger audience. This might be seen by some as making the courses more alive but which in reality makes them less alive by distracting the students and making it more difficult to concentrate seriously on the coursework. Other newly produced Great Courses have professors abandoning their podiums and moving around. The second, and the hardest to ignore, is that the professor constantly dances around his stage which is terribly distracting. At first this is just an occasional annoyance, but with each instance the irritation increases. ![]() The first is the professor’s injecting religion into the proceedings. Several aspects of the course though detract in my opinion from its value. Then Rush says "By God, if you do not, who does? Let us have pirates, clowns and a happy ending and you'll make Harvey Weinstein a happy man.Fun Course I feel this is a very good course that illuminates the various ways that one can appreciate how Shakespeare’s plays can be well understood. To Rushs question "How does the comedy end?" Fiennes replys "By God, I wish I knew". A deleted take where Tom Wilkinson announces that he will be playing the apothecary.When they meet the other actors and hear that Will Shakespeare needs actors for his new play they follow them to the audition. Here the two actors John and James walk to the court to play witnesses. A small scene which takes place after Henslowe has announced the audition.A small conversation between Fennyman and Henslowe is added where they discuss about business. The sequence is largely the same as the scene used in the final film but parts are shown from different angles. A slightly different version of the scene where Burbank and his men fight against Will and his actors in the theatre.Here we see that Viola survives the drowning and is washed ashore an unknown coast. The scene where Lord Wessex's ship sinks is also different. He also takes the 50 pounds and says "Welcome to the Chamberlain's Men". After Viola has left Burbage enters and stops Will from running after Viola. ![]() Here the conversation between Will and Viola is shorter than in the final film. The Region 2 DVD contains some deleted scenes: ![]()
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