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Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 1: the Story
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 1: the Story
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Apr 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic comedies. It is also his most daring exploration of sex, gender, and identity. In the Forest of Arden, Rosalind flips the script of romantic convention and pursues the man she loves — while she is disguised as a man. In this course, you’ll learn the story of As You Like It, unpack the complex games it plays with gender and performance, and hear the play’s key speeches performed and analyzed by world-class Shakespearean actors and literary scholars. In Part 1, you’ll be guided through a detailed account of the story with commentary by Dr. Will Tosh, research fellow and lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe in London. Dr. Tosh discusses the significance of the play in Shakespeare’s career and of the way that Shakespeare’s company first performed it. This summary is told using the language of the play itself, placing key quotations in context to help you understand where these lines come from and what they mean.
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Released:
Apr 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
George Hunka, “Word Made Flesh: Philosophy, Eros, and Contemporary Tragic Drama” (Eyecorner Press, 2011): George Hunka’s book Word Made Flesh: Philosophy, Eros, and Contemporary Tragic Drama (Eyecorner Press, 2011) offers a series of challenges, provocations and meditations on Theatre (with a capital “T”). It’s a valuable piece of work to wrestle with, by New Books in Literary Studies