Author: Standard Deviants

Format: Color

PartNumber: unknown

Release Date: 18-06-2002

Details: Origins and Style is an introduction to understanding and appreciating Shakespeare. After exploring Shakespeare's life and times, this program contains sections on understanding Shakespeare's poetry and the elements of Elizabethan drama. Also, by evaluating the tragic figure that is Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the Standard Deviants help viewers understand exactly what a tragedy is. Finally, the program offers a brief overview of Shakespere's development as a tragedian. The Standard Deviants: Shakespeare Tragedies: Origins and Style covers: Elizabethan Era/English Renaissance/Shakespeare's life/Stratford-on-Avon/Shakespeare's plays/The Globe Theater/poetry/blank verse/iambic pentameter/Elizabethan drama/character insight/Aristotle and drama/the importance of words/real life vs. stage life/symbolic art/tragedy/tragic figures/Greek tragedy/Sophocles/Oedipus Rex/tragedy in the middle ages/De Casibus tragedies/wheel of fortune/Shakespeare's tragedies. With our DVDs, you can jump around with the touch of a button and skip over those sections you have already mastered. These highly interactive DVDs also permit you to interact directly with the tutorial through drill-style quizzes and multiple-choice tests.

UPC: 631865010523

EAN: 0631865010523

Model: unknown

Languages: english

Binding: dvd

Item Condition: New