Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap

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
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130
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138
144
146
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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 U: Troilus and Cressida
Shakespeare's one satire, on the matter of Troy.
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