Shakespeare's Life Work and Characters XSeries

What you will learn
- Foundational knowledge on the cultural significance of Shakespeare’s plays.
- How Shakespeare’s work was considered in his own time and in the present, in his own country and around the world.
- Appreciate Shakespearean dramaturgy and language.
- Identify historical contexts that illuminate Shakespeare’s artistic choices.
- Explore the implications of different theatrical and performance interpretations.

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Shakespeare's Life and Work (edX)

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance. How do we read Shakespeare? Do his plays belong to the past, or the present? To a famed dramatic genius or to readers and audiences around the globe? What do his plays [...]