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A 3-Disc Box Set
The Standard Deviants' modern approach to learning is anything but standard! Our fast-paced fresh DVD programs are so smart, crazy and fun, you'll actually forget you're learning! The Standard Deviants digest and dissect difficult subjects -- combining cutting-edge technology, enhanced flexibility, a segmented viewing menu, interactive tests and quizzes and award-winning educational content. The Standard Deviants DVD gives you immediate feedback while providing you the ability to design your own program and learn at your own pace.
Origins And Style:
Elizabethan Era, English Renaissance, Shakespeare's life, Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's plays, the Globe Theater, poetry, blank verse, iambic pentameter, Elizabethan drama, character insight, Aristotle and drama, the importance of words, real life vs. stage life, symbolic art, tragedy, tragic figures, Greek tragedy, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, tragedy in the Middle Ages, De Casibus tragedies, wheel of fortune, Shakespeare's tragedies
Titus Andronicus / Romeo & Juliet / Hamlet:
textual approaches, variations in texts, Titus Andronicus --main characters, synopsis of the play, sources and influences, Seneca, Ovid, Elizabethan entertainment, the play's defects, poetic excess, spectacle and horror, theatrical busyness, the play's achievements, theatricality, tightly controlled plot, Romeo and Juliet -- main characters, synopsis of the play, poetry of the play, sonnets, foil characters, Mercutio and the Nurse, plot coincidences, Romeo and Juliet as tragic figures, Hamlet -- main characters, synopsis of the play, mystery, Hamlet's character, philosophical questions, revenge plays, Hamlet as tragedy
Othello / Macbeth / King Lear:
textual approaches, variations in texts, Othello -- synopsis of the play, major characters, Othello, Desdemona, Iago, symbolic art, secondary characters, Cassio, Emilia, Roderigo, the play's tragic movement, Othello as tragic figure, Macbeth -- synopsis of the play, language and verse, iambic pentameter, blank verse vs. prose, main characters, witches, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Macdiffs, Macbeth as tragedy, King Lear -- main characters synopsis of the play, figurative art, metaphoric art, double plots, Lear plot, Gloucester plot, key scenes, King Lear as tragedy
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