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Shakespeare: The Word and the Action

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Teaching as a trained actor and director as well as a scholar, and assisted by two additional actors, Professor Peter Saccio explores selected works by Shakespeare. You will be entertained and informed as you analyze how Shakespeare used the resources of the English language and the Elizabethan theater to scale artistic heights never matched before or since.

© 2023 The Great Courses (Audiobook): 9781682765487

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Audiobook: 13 September 2023

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