Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap

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 Boo...

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 ...

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., 195...

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...

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, ...

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.

Questions? Em...

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 q...

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...