After a 15 minute discussion of Covid-19 (not recorded here) we talk about the actual ages of various characters, and the ages that Shakespeare wanted them to be: not only in A & C but in Richard II, 1 Henry IV and the romances: the idea that you can go from the start of adulthood (Octavius) to the maturity that makes you fit for tragedy and old enough to have lived long enough (Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra) within 16-18 years or so. Shakespeare's highly skillful stage setting in scene 1. Too all over the place, but I am hoping that if classes aren't canceled as they're being at many of our sister institutions, we'll settle down in to focused discussion.
16 -- Lyrical Ballads. Ballads. Lyric. (English 1a)
Intro (1a) class 15: How to write. More Blake -- The Chimney Sweeper
Pope and then Blake (14th episode of Intro to Lit)
Lit 1, episode 13: Rape of the Lock
Into to Lit, episode 12: Last class on Paradise Lost: The real unreality of our lives
Lit 1, part 11: Invocation to Book 7; Calliope and Orpheus; the Fall
Intro to Lit 10: Catching up on Milton
Milton on free will; ordering of the story; invocation and voice; light
Intro to Lit 8: Shelley and Milton's sardonic God; moral judgment
More on the sublime: Burke and Satan
Lit analysis 6: First class on Paradise Lost = Blake and Shelley...
Intro to Lit 5: Lear, Tate, Addison, Johnson, Freud
Intro, class 4: Testing in Lear; parallax; doubling; the Fool
Shakespeare and window characters
Intro to lit 2: Love personified from Surrey to Bishop
Introduction to Literary Studies - 1: Carroll, Jonson, Yeats
26. Milton: freedom and necessity, the tyrant's plea
19. Last film class: Peeping Tom and lots of psychoanalytic talk about scopohilia
25. Some more on Paradise Lost
24. First class on Milton
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