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Robert Bell / Williams:
What’s So Great about Shakespeare?
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
Free TrialInventing English—Where Our Words Come From
Instructor:
Seth Lerer / Stanford
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
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
