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Seth Lerer / Stanford:
Inventing English—Where Our Words Come From
English has changed remarkably in its thousand-year history, and it is changing even more quickly today. How can we find the roots of English in the words we still use? And how do new words in the lang... read more
Free TrialThe Genius of Shakespeare, and Why he Still Matters
Instructor:
Ralph Williams / Michigan
One of the most unsettling and utterly persuasive features of Shakespeare's drama is that lives often pivot on what seems at the time to be trifling points. A happenstance dropping of a handkerchief... read more
Who Was Shakespeare & Why Does He Still Matter?
Instructor:
Robert Watson / Ucla
How can we grasp William Shakespeare – the most powerful and elusive genius in Western Culture? What revelations lurk in his biography, in the conflicts of Elizabethan society, the glories of Renaissance h... read more
What’s So Great about Shakespeare?
Instructor:
Robert Bell / Williams
Widely heralded as the world’s greatest writer, universally celebrated four centuries after his death, Shakespeare remains monumental and irresistible. No writer in history rivals Shakespeare. What are the sources of S... read more
