Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 3

Based on the teaching of Professor Mary Holmes

Topics:

Judgments of Art
Talking about Art
What Makes a Work of Art Great?

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Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 2

Based on the teaching of Professor Mary Holmes

Topics:
Paradox 2: Escape and Return
Paradox 3: I and We
Paradox 4: Integrity and Change
The Power of Art
The Goal of Art

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Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 1

Based on the teaching of Professor Mary Holmes

Session 1 Topics: 

Why Art? 
What is Art? 
How Art Works 
Paradox 1: Empathy and Psychic Distance
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief

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Series II, Podcast Z: Selected Sonnets 129-146

129
130
135
138
144
146

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Series II, Podcast Y: Selected Sonnets 73-116

73
74
94
116

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Series II, Podcast X: Selected Sonnets 1-65

1-17
18
20
29
30
42
55
60
65

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Series I, Chapter 14: Hypothetical, Spurious, and False Shakespeare

Hypothetical: Love's Labour's Won, Cardenio
Spurious: Hecate passages in Macbeth
False Attributions: "The Passionate Pilgrim," Arden of Feversham, "Shall I Die?" A Funeral Elegy


Notes:

References are to the following:
F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964 (Baltimore:  Penguin Books, 1964), pp. 289, 83–84, 491–92;
Jonathan Bate, “Is there a lost Shakespeare in your attic?” in The Telegraph, April 21, 2007, accessed 8/13/18 at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664626/Is-there-a-lost-Shakespeare-in-your-attic.html;
G. Blakemore Evans, Note on the Text of Macbeth, in The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Ed., (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), pp. 1387–88;
Frank Kermode, Introduction to Macbeth in the same Riverside edition, pp. 1355–56;
Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Passionate Pilgrim in The Riverside Shakespeare, p. 1881;
MacDonald P. Jackson, Determining the Shakespeare Canon: Arden of Faversham and A Lover’s Complaint (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2014);
MacDonald P. Jackson, “Shakespeare and the Quarrel Scene in “Arden of Faversham,” Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Autumn, 2006), pp. 249–93;
Arden of Feversham, ed. Ronald Bayne (London: J.M. Dent, 1897) reproduced on line and accessed (8/21/18) at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43440/43440-0.txt;
Gary Taylor, “Shakespeare’s New Poem:  A Scholar’s Clues and Conclusions,” New York Times, December 15, 1985, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/15/books/shakespeare-s-new-poem-a-scholar-s-clues-and-conclusions.html;
Donald Foster, Letter to the New York Times, January 19, 1986, accessed on 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/19/books/l-a-new-shakespeare-poem-238486.html;
G.D. Monsarrat, “A Funeral Elegy:  Ford, W.S., and Shakespeare” in The Review of English Studies New Series, Vol. 53, No. 210 (May, 2002), pp. 186-203, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/3070371?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents;
William S. Niederkorn, “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery,” New York Times, August 21, 2002, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/arts/a-scholar-recants-on-his-shakespeare-discovery.html.

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Series I, Chapter 13: Did Shakespeare Collaborate?

Edward III
Pericles
Henry VIII
The Two  Noble Kinsmen
Sir Thomas More

References are to the following:

Melchiori, Giorgio, ed. The New Cambridge Shakespeare: King Edward III (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 12–13; Hallett Smith, Introduction to Pericles, Prince of Tyre in G. Blakemore Evans, ed., The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Ed. (Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1997), p. 1527; Jonathan Bate, “Is there a lost Shakespeare in your attic?” in The Telegraph, April 21, 2007, accessed 8/13/18 at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664626/Is-there-a-lost-Shakespeare-in-your-attic.html; J. Spedding, “Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Henry VIII?” Gentleman’s Magazine, clxxviii (August–October 1850), pp. 115–24 and 381–82, quoted and ref. in R.A. Foakes, ed., King Henry VIII The Arden Edition, (Cambridge:  Methuen and Harvard University Press, Third Ed, 1957, Repr. 1966), pp. xvii; Cyrus Hoy, “The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (vii),” Studies in Bibliography, xv (1962), p. 79, quoted and ref. in R.A. Foakes, ed. King Henry VIII, pp. xxvii–xxviii; Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Two Noble Kinsmen in The Riverside Shakespeare, p. 1689; G. Blakemore Evans, Introduction to Sir Thomas More: The Additions Ascribed to Shakespeare, in The  Riverside Shakespeare, pp. 1775–79.

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Series II, Podcast W: The Tempest

Shakespeare's most mystical play.


References are to the following:  C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964, repr. 1967), Chapter VI; C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (New York: HarperCollins, 2001, orig. copyright 1944), pp. 77–78; Frank Kermode, ed., Arden edition of The Tempest (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 6th ed., 1958), Intro. pp. xxxv–xxxvii, pp. liii–liv, and Appendix B, p. 143.

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Series II, Podcast V: The Winter's Tale

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