Materials about Shakespeare
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Immortal Bard??
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An introductory workshop about the complications of interpreting Shakespeare,
focused on his images of women and an article about different ways of dealing
with Kate's role in The Taming of the Shrew.
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The Debate About Women
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A workshop on several Elizabethan pamphlets in the debate about women and
The Taming of the Shrew.
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Shakespeare As Play, Text and Film
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A workshop on the differences between Shakespeare on the page, the stage, and the screen.
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The Case of Richard III
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A Workshop exploring the effects of later accounts by Josephine Tey and other
historians on our reading of Shakespeare's Richard III.
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Sonnet Workshop
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A workshop on reading sonnets.
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"Through Release to Clarification"
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A workshop exploring several comedies through a slogan from C. L. Barber's
Shakespeare's Festive Comedies - "Through release to clarification."
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Marlowe's Edward II
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On Marlowe's play and Elizabethan politics.
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The Elizabethan World Picture?
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Begins by working out Tillyard's account of the Elizabethan world picture,
and then asks students to consider the actaul status of these ideas in
Shakespeare's works.