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? Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

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 Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

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 Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast Z: Selected Sonnets 129-146 129 130 135 138 144 146 Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast Y: Selected Sonnets 73-116 73 74 94 116 Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast X: Selected Sonnets 1-65 1-17 18 20 29 30 42 55 60 65 Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

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...

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 los...

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. Questions? Emai...

Series II, Podcast V: The Winter's Tale Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast U: Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare's one satire, on the matter of Troy. Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

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 L...

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. Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

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 Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast Q: Richard II Chiasmus Right vs. Merit The Beginning of the Wars of the Roses Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

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...

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? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com.

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 ...

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. Questions? ...