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Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 3Based on the teaching of Professor Mary HolmesTopics: Judgments of ArtTalking about ArtWhat Makes a Work of Art Great?Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 2Based on the teaching of Professor Mary HolmesTopics:Paradox 2: Escape and ReturnParadox 3: I and WeParadox 4: Integrity and ChangeThe Power of ArtThe Goal of ArtQuestions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series I, Chapter 15: The Nature of Art, Session 1Based on the teaching of Professor Mary HolmesSession 1 Topics:  Why Art? What is Art? How Art Works Paradox 1: Empathy and Psychic DistanceThe Willing Suspension of DisbeliefQuestions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast Z: Selected Sonnets 129-146129130135138144146Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast Y: Selected Sonnets 73-116737494116Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast X: Selected Sonnets 1-651-171820293042556065Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series I, Chapter 14: Hypothetical, Spurious, and False ShakespeareHypothetical: Love's Labour's Won, CardenioSpurious: Hecate passages in MacbethFalse Attributions: "The Passionate Pilgrim," Arden of Feversham, "Shall I Die?" A Funeral ElegyNotes: 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

Series I, Chapter 13: Did Shakespeare Collaborate?Edward IIIPericlesHenry VIIIThe Two  Noble KinsmenSir Thomas MoreReferences 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

Series II, Podcast W: The TempestShakespeare's most mystical play.References are to the following:  C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964, repr. 1967), Chapter VI; C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (New York: HarperCollins, 2001, orig. copyright 1944), pp. 77–78; Frank Kermode, ed., Arden edition of The Tempest (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 6th ed., 1958), Intro. pp. xxxv–xxxvii, pp. liii–liv, and Appendix B, p. 143.Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast V: The Winter's TaleQuestions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast U: Troilus and CressidaShakespeare's one satire, on the matter of Troy.Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series I, Chapter 12: Shakespeare's Other PoemsVenus and AdonisThe Rape of LucreceThe Phoenix and the TurtleA Lover's ComplaintNotes:I have taken some facts and quotations from the following:  On The Rape of Lucrece: Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Rape of Lucrece in G. Glakemore Evans, ed., The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Edition (Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1997), p. 1814, 1815; and F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion (Baltimore:  Penguin, 1964), p. 402. On A Lover’s Complaint: Robert Giroux, The Book Known as Q:  A Consideration of Shakepeare’s Sonnets (New York:  Atheneum, 1982), p. 210, 211; Brian Vickers, “Did Shakespeare write A Lover’s Complaint?” accessed 8/13/18 at https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare/1026#ftn1; see the technical argument in MacDonald P. Jackson, “A Lover’s Complaint and the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic” in Early Modern Literary Studies accessed 8/19/18 at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/article/viewFile/67/22; see the broader argument in MacDonald P. Jackson, Determining the Shakespeare Canon:  Arden of Faversham and A Lover’s Complaint (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2014).Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast T: Henry VPageantShakespeare's Ideal KingBanishment of FalstaffNote: The Thompson quotation  is from Philip Thompson, Notes on Shakespeare in Gideon Rappaport, ed., Dusk and Dawn: Poetry and Prose of Philip Thompson (San Diego: One Mind Good Presss, 2005), p. 228. 

Series II, Podcast S: Henry IV, Part IIPromise Fulfilled: Prince Hal becomes King Henry VDefense of Prince JohnFalstaff's BanishmentNote: The Thompson quotation is from Notes on Shakespeare in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 221, 227. Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast R: Henry IV, Part IThree metaphorical heirs to the throne: Hal, Hotspur, FalstaffTwo excessive humors and Plato's three soulsPrince Hal's CharacterQuestions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast Q: Richard IIChiasmusRight vs. MeritThe Beginning of the Wars of the RosesQuestions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast P: Richard IIIScourge of God"Despair and Die"End of the Wars of the RosesNotes: Two quotations come from Anthony Hammond, Introduction to King Richard III, The Arden Shakespeare (London: Methuen, 1981): The More description is on p. 78; the Spivack quotations (citing Bernard Spivack, Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil [New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1958], pp. 135, 151, 157, 161–62) are on p. 100. The Paradin quotation appears in the same Arden edition on p. 339 in Appendix II, note to III.iv.32.Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast O: Introduction to Shakespeare's History PlaysNotes: The Thompson quotations are from “Notes on Shakespeare” in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 221, 227. The Robie Macauley quotation is from his introduction to Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End  (New York: Knopf, 1961), p. ix.Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com.

Series I, Chapter 11: What Is a Sonnet For?What is a poem?What is a sonnet?Shakespeare's SonnetsDid Shakespeare really mean it?How long did it take him to write one?To whom did he write them?Was Shakespeare gay?Notes: The Robert Frost quotation is from Newsweek, January 30, 1956, p. 56, accessed 7/5/18 at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/frost-tennis.html. The Hecht quotation is from Anthony Hecht, Introduction to G. Blakemore Evans, Ed., The Sonnets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, repr. 1998), p. 15. The Dickinson quotation is from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), L342a, quoted at https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/later_years.Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com

Series II, Podcast N: Antony and CleopatraRome and EgyptReason and PassionParticulars and the Universal5 Key Lines12 Specific NotesNotes: The Thompson quotation is from Reflections (Literary and Philosophical) in Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego: One Mind Good Press, 2005), p. 187. The quotation from Sir John Hawkins can be accessed at https://archive.org/details/playspoemsofwill12shak/page/364/mode/2up.Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com