Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap
UPDATE:
Appreciating Shakespeare by Gideon Rappaport, also available as a BOOK in hardcover, paperback, and eBook, offers knowledge and tools for appreciating Shakespeare's deep and universal meanings. Other books by Doctor Rap include William Shakespeare's Hamlet (a completely annotated edition), Shakespeare's Rhetorical Figures: An Outline, High School Homilies, and Paradox, all published by One Mind Good Press and available wherever books are sold.
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Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap
Julius Caesar (Series II, Podcast I)
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Series II, Podcast I: Julius Caesar
Shakespeare inherits both pro- and anti-Caesar traditions
The body of Caesar vs. the spirit of Caesar
Notes: The Sayers quotation is from notes on the major images in Canto XXXIV in Dorothy Sayers, tr., The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine, Cantica I, Hell (London: Penguin, 1949), p. 289. On the anti-Caesar position, see William Blisset, “Caesar and Satan,” Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 221-232, accessed 11/1/18 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2707625?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
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