02.01.2024, 13:40
Shakespeare: The Word and the Action [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B00DTO647M | July 08, 2013 | 11 hrs and 33 mins | MP3 64 kbps | 317 MB
Peter Saccio, The Great Courses (Author), Peter Saccio (Narrator)
Shakespeare is the leading playwright - and probably the leading writer - in Western civilization. His works are one of the greatest achievements of the human mind and spirit. And yet, for far too many of us, they remain a closed book. Why?
Professor Saccio is well suited in these 16 lectures to bring you back into Shakespeare's world and tune you into what he calls "Shakespeare's wavelength." As you hear him effortlessly deliver heretofore impenetrable language with the proper meter, emphasis, intonation, and emotion, you'll experience the pleasure that comes with true mastery. Professor Saccio also prepares you to read or watch the plays by orienting you to Shakespeare's use of multiple plots, lines of action, and the sometimes outmoded forms of human behavior (such as courtship in Elizabethan England) that arise in his plays.