Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap

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UPDATE: Appreciating Shakespeare by Gideon Rappaport, also available as a BOOK in hardcover, paperback, and eBook, offers knowledge and tools for appreciating Shakespeare's deep and universal meanings. Other books by Doctor Rap include William Shakespeare's Hamlet (a completely annotated edition), Shakespeare's Rhetorical Figures: An Outline, High School Homilies, and Paradox, all published by One Mind Good Press and available wherever books are sold. Questions?: Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

  1. 05/18/2021

    The Nature of Art (Series I, Chapter 15, Session 3)

    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

    15 min

  2. 05/13/2021

    The Nature of Art (Series I, Chapter 15, Session 2)

    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

    24 min

  3. 05/11/2021

    The Nature of Art (Series I, Chapter 15, Session 1)

    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

    28 min

  4. 05/06/2021

    Selected Sonnets 129-146 (Series II, Podcast Z)

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

    34 min

  5. 05/04/2021

    Selected Sonnets 73-116 (Series II, Podcast Y)

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

    31 min

  6. 04/29/2021

    Selected Sonnets 1-65 (Series II, Podcast X)

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

    45 min

  7. 04/28/2021

    Hypothetical, Spurious, and False Shakespeare (Series I, Chapter 14)

    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, accessed 8/13/18 at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664626/Is-there-a-lost-Shakespeare-in-your-attic.html; G. Blakemore Evans, Note on the Text of Macbeth, in The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Ed., (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), pp. 1387–88; Frank Kermode, Introduction to Macbeth in the same Riverside edition, pp. 1355–56; Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Passionate Pilgrim in The Riverside Shakespeare, p. 1881; MacDonald P. Jackson, Determining the Shakespeare Canon: Arden of Faversham and A Lover’s Complaint (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2014); MacDonald P. Jackson, “Shakespeare and the Quarrel Scene in “Arden of Faversham,” Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Autumn, 2006), pp. 249–93; Arden of Feversham, ed. Ronald Bayne (London: J.M. Dent, 1897) reproduced on line and accessed (8/21/18) at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43440/43440-0.txt; Gary Taylor, “Shakespeare’s New Poem:  A Scholar’s Clues and Conclusions,” New York Times, December 15, 1985, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/15/books/shakespeare-s-new-poem-a-scholar-s-clues-and-conclusions.html; Donald Foster, Letter to the New York Times, January 19, 1986, accessed on 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/19/books/l-a-new-shakespeare-poem-238486.html; G.D. Monsarrat, “A Funeral Elegy:  Ford, W.S., and Shakespeare” in The Review of English Studies New Series, Vol. 53, No. 210 (May, 2002), pp. 186-203, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/3070371?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents; William S. Niederkorn, “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery,” New York Times, August 21, 2002, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/arts/a-scholar-recants-on-his-shakespeare-discovery.html. Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

    15 min

  8. 04/22/2021

    Did Shakespeare Collaborate? (Series I, Chapter 13)

    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 lost Shakespeare in your attic?” in The Telegraph, April 21, 2007, accessed 8/13/18 at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664626/Is-there-a-lost-Shakespeare-in-your-attic.html; J. Spedding, “Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Henry VIII?” Gentleman’s Magazine, clxxviii (August–October 1850), pp. 115–24 and 381–82, quoted and ref. in R.A. Foakes, ed., King Henry VIII The Arden Edition, (Cambridge:  Methuen and Harvard University Press, Third Ed, 1957, Repr. 1966), pp. xvii; Cyrus Hoy, “The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (vii),” Studies in Bibliography, xv (1962), p. 79, quoted and ref. in R.A. Foakes, ed. King Henry VIII, pp. xxvii–xxviii; Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Two Noble Kinsmen in The Riverside Shakespeare, p. 1689; G. Blakemore Evans, Introduction to Sir Thomas More: The Additions Ascribed to Shakespeare, in The  Riverside Shakespeare, pp. 1775–79. Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

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UPDATE: Appreciating Shakespeare by Gideon Rappaport, also available as a BOOK in hardcover, paperback, and eBook, offers knowledge and tools for appreciating Shakespeare's deep and universal meanings. Other books by Doctor Rap include William Shakespeare's Hamlet (a completely annotated edition), Shakespeare's Rhetorical Figures: An Outline, High School Homilies, and Paradox, all published by One Mind Good Press and available wherever books are sold. Questions?: Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

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