Shakespeare

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's tragedy, 'King Lear' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes include key contexts of tragedy, and larger concepts within the play, such as psychoanalytical and existential interpretations.

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's poetry, namely 'The Rape of Lucrece' and 'Venus and Adonis' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes include key contexts of poetic form, origins of the poems, and the larger themes at work within them.

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's, 'The Merchant of Venice' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes elaborate on deeper conceptual themes within the play, including a scene by scene analysis and discussion, and featuring many useful quotes from the play as well as from notable critics.

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's problem play, 'Measure for Measure' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes include key contexts, scene by scene analysis and quotes, as well as the larger themes towards the play points

In-depth lecture notes covering key contexts of comedy - origins of comedy, its various developments and evolutions, and the ways in which Shakespeare employs comedy in his works.

In-depth lecture notes covering key theories of tragedy, its developments and evolutions, and the ways in which Shakespeare employs such concepts in his tragedies. These notes include Classical origins, and Shakespeare's tragedies: Macbeth, King Lear and Hamlet.

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's tragedy, 'Macbeth' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes include key contexts of Shakespearean tragedy, the play's structure, and the conceptual notion of 'time' in the play.

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's sonnets - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes include key contexts of the sonnets, various interpretations and larger conceptual themes (notably sexuality, gender, class), and key concepts of the sonnet form.

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's comedy, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes include key contexts of comedy, its various 'spheres of action', as well as Post-Structuralism and narrative systems within the play.