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So I’ve signed up for another MOOC since I enjoyed the one on Hamlet so much. (More on that later.) So this one is titled Shakespeare and His World and is led by Professor Jonathan Bate, in conjunction with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. From the course description: Each week, Professor Bate will examine a particular […]
Some out-loud musing on this week’s topic in the online course on Hamlet: melancholy and madness… For such a major component of the play (not to mention a topic that has been examined so often), I didn’t realize ‘melancholy’ was only used twice in the play. Although it was published about two decades after Hamlet […]
Oh yeah, I signed up for FutureLearn’s course on Shakespeare’s Hamlet: text, performance, and culture. I’ll let you know how it goes. Join in! ABOUT THE COURSE: This course introduces the many ways in which Hamlet can be enjoyed and understood. Six weekly videos discuss the play’s fortunes in print, and its own representations of […]