How to Read and Appreciate Shakespeare

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📚 Read the works of Shakespeare with Hardcore Literature: https://www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature/about ———————————— 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/70IZA24... (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify) 🏫 https://hardcore-university.teachable... (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses) ✍🏼 https://benjaminmcevoy.com My Personal Website ———————————— Hardcore Literature Lecture Series ———————————— 📔Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3 🎖️ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma 🎭 Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7 🐳 Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf ☄️ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp 🍂 Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt 🇮🇪 Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN 🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv 💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5 ⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b ☕ In Search of Lost Time: https://cutt.ly/5mNh8oD ⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: https://cutt.ly/UmNjrE3 🌸 Siddharta: https://cutt.ly/YmNjuzi 🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4 ❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: https://cutt.ly/nmNlW7V 🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA 🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: https://cutt.ly/nToAQQ3 🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: https://cutt.ly/9ToAybt 📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c ———————————— Happy reading! 0:00 is Shakespeare coming back into fashion? 1:00 should you read or watch Shakespeare? 2:00 how to build the theatre of your mind 2:30 why Hamlet and King Lear are unperformable 3:00 my favourite Shakespeare performance 4:15 why Tolstoy disliked Shakespeare 5:00 the Three Reads Method 5:45 why my private readings are the best performances 7:00 reading Shakespeare as a non-native 8:10 academics who condescend to Shakespeare 10:07 three recommended editions of Shakespeare 10:30 the Arden Shakespeare Series 11:40 the Everyman's Library Shakespeare 13:05 cheap cost-effective Penguin paperback Shakespeare 13:30 what order should you read Shakespeare in? 14:00 a sonnet reading experience 14:20 reading the High Tragedies back-to-back 15:00 reading Shakespeare chronologically 15:30 Shakespeare's immature plays 16:00 reading the best Shakespeare plays 16:30 top secret book club reading order 17:00 can you locate Shakespeare in his work? 17:30 can you locate yourself in his work? 18:10 can you locate other writers in his work? 18:40 why you should rank/grade the plays 19:00 connecting to Shakespeare's characters 19:30 Shakespeare's women characters 20:00 the tradition of playing Hamlet 21:00 Shakespeare reading assignments 21:30 the Hardcore Literature Book Club 22:50 what do you think about Shakespeare?