Series II, Podcast Q: Richard II Chiasmus Right vs. Merit The Beginning of the Wars of the Roses Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com ..read more

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-yo ..read more

Series I, Chapter 4: Shakespeare's Language, Session 4:  Rhetorical Devices: Variation in Speech Did Shakespeare's audience get it all? Coming next:  The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare's Characters Questions? email DoctorRap@zohomail.com ..read more

Series I, Chapter 7: Why All the Footnotes? Shakespeare's Mental Furniture Session 4: Disintegrating Forces: The Protestant Reformation Machiavelli The New Science Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com ..read more

Series II, Podcast G: Measure for Measure A discussion of one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies. The wedding of Justice and Mercy. The source of two of the Thompson quotations is Philip Thompson, Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson, ed. Gideon Rappaport (San Diego:  One Mind Good Press, 2005), pp. 223–26; a third quotation was heard in private conversation with the poet.  Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com ..read more

Series II, Podcast P: Richard III Scourge of God "Despair and Die" End of the Wars of the Roses Notes: 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 ..read more

Series II, Podcast H: Romeo and Juliet Oxymoron Love and Death Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com   ..read more

Series I, Chapter 1: What's So Great about Shakespeare?  Session 3: Elements of Shakespeare's Mastery concluded:  Sound and Sense, Action, Universal Realism. Questions? email DoctorRap@zohomail.com ..read more

What was the state of the art in Shakespeare's theater?  Hearing a play. The building and the Stage. Sets. Props. Costumes. Actors. Play direction. Prompt-book and book-keeper. Dance. Audience.  Questions? Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com ..read more

Series I, Chapter 11: What Is a Sonnet For? What is a poem? What is a sonnet? Shakespeare's Sonnets Did 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 Dickin ..read more