Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap

Series II, Podcast U: Troilus and Cressida

Shakespeare's one satire, on the matter of Troy.

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Series I, Chapter 12: Shakespeare's Other Poems

Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint

Notes:
I have taken some facts and quotations from the following: 

On The Rape of Lucrece: Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Rape of Lucrece in G. Glakemore Evans, ed., The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Edition (Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1997), p. 1814, 1815; and F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion (Baltimore:  Penguin, 1964), p. 402. On A Lover’s Complaint: Robert Giroux, The Book Known as Q:  A Consideration of Shakepeare’s Sonnets (New York:  Atheneum, 1982), p. 210, 211; Brian Vickers, “Did Shakespeare write A Lover’s Complaint?” accessed 8/13/18 at https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare/1026#ftn1; see the technical argument in MacDonald P. Jackson, “A Lover’s Complaint and the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic” in Early Modern Literary Studies accessed 8/19/18 at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/article/viewFile/67/22; see the broader argument in MacDonald P. Jackson, Determining the Shakespeare Canon:  Arden of Faversham and A Lover’s Complaint (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2014).

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Series II, Podcast T: Henry V

Pageant
Shakespeare's Ideal King
Banishment of Falstaff


Note: The Thompson quotation  is from Philip Thompson, Notes on Shakespeare in Gideon Rappaport, ed., Dusk and Dawn: Poetry and Prose of Philip Thompson (San Diego: One Mind Good Presss, 2005), p. 228. 

Series II, Podcast S: Henry IV, Part II

Promise Fulfilled: Prince Hal becomes King Henry V
Defense of Prince John
Falstaff's Banishment

Note: The Thompson quotation is from Notes on Shakespeare in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 221, 227. 

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Series II, Podcast R: Henry IV, Part I

Three metaphorical heirs to the throne: Hal, Hotspur, Falstaff
Two excessive humors and Plato's three souls
Prince Hal's Character

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Series II, Podcast Q: Richard II

Chiasmus
Right vs. Merit
The Beginning of the Wars of the Roses

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Series II, Podcast P: Richard III

Scourge of God
"Despair and Die"
End of the Wars of the Roses

Notes: Two quotations come from Anthony Hammond, Introduction to King Richard III, The Arden Shakespeare (London: Methuen, 1981): The More description is on p. 78; the Spivack quotations (citing Bernard Spivack, Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil [New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1958], pp. 135, 151, 157, 161–62) are on p. 100. The Paradin quotation appears in the same Arden edition on p. 339 in Appendix II, note to III.iv.32.

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Series II, Podcast O: Introduction to Shakespeare's History Plays


Notes: The Thompson quotations are from “Notes on Shakespeare” in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 221, 227. The Robie Macauley quotation is from his introduction to Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End  (New York: Knopf, 1961), p. ix.

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Series I, Chapter 11: What Is a Sonnet For?

What is a poem?
What is a sonnet?
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Did Shakespeare really mean it?
How long did it take him to write one?
To whom did he write them?
Was Shakespeare gay?

Notes: The Robert Frost quotation is from Newsweek, January 30, 1956, p. 56, accessed 7/5/18 at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/frost-tennis.html. The Hecht quotation is from Anthony Hecht, Introduction to G. Blakemore Evans, Ed., The Sonnets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, repr. 1998), p. 15. The Dickinson quotation is from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), L342a, quoted at https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/later_years.

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Series II, Podcast N: Antony and Cleopatra

Rome and Egypt
Reason and Passion
Particulars and the Universal

5 Key Lines
12 Specific Notes


Notes: The Thompson quotation is from Reflections (Literary and Philosophical) in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 187. The quotation from Sir John Hawkins can be accessed at https://archive.org/details/playspoemsofwill12shak/page/364/mode/2up.

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