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Shakespeare's takes on - whether a funny like A Midsummer Night's Dream, a history like Henry IV, or a tragedy like Hamlet - are treasure troves of perception into our very mankind. These 36 lectures expose you to Shakespeare's major takes on from each of these three styles and describe the achievement which makes him the key playwright in Western civilization. As you will see, the main element to Shakespeare's substantial accomplishment is his "abundance," regarding to Professor Saccio; not only in the number and length of his plays but in the variety of activities they depict, the multitude of actions and heroes they contain, the combination of general population and private life they offer with, and the richness of feelings they express. All of the major takes on are here so that you can dive into, explore, and revel in: The Taming of the Shrew (with its realistic look at bourgeois marriage traditions), Measure for Measure (which shows Shakespeare breaking out of comic conventions), Richard III (the source of one of the Bard's most entertaining and scary historical villains), Henry V (which boosts questions about the morality of warfare), Macbeth (with its piercing look into the consciousness of a man hungry for electric power), and even more. As the richness of every of the and other takes on is revealed, you can also touch after the far-ranging philosophical and theological implications behind them. By the last lecture, you'll have true knowledge of why these comedies, histories, and tragedies undergo even to the very day.
