8 lectures on 8 audio cassettes. Lecture 1: Shakespeare and Stratford; lecture 2: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theater; Lecture 3: Shakespeare and English history: Richard II; Lecture 4: kings and Commoners: Henry IV 1 & 2 and Henry V; Lecture 5: Twelfth Night and Shakespearean Comedy; Lecture 6: the Merchant of Venice and the Reinterpretation of Shakespeare; Lecture 7: Hamlet and the Perplexing World; Lecture 8: King Lear
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges’ erudition on the following topics: Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
Humor in contemporary culture is generally celebrated as a public good, yet at times is felt to produce misunderstanding and even hatred. Now available in paperback, this collection explores the ethics and aesthetics of humor, in everyday life and in media comedy. An updated introduction looks at the implications of the Brand/Ross controversy.
American Theatre - A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969-2000
Volume Four of the distinguished American Theatre - A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama series offers a thorough, candid, and fascinating look at the theater in New York during the last decades of the twentieth century.
A lively TV-magazine programme for children. Key features: A team of young presenters offers an original mix of reports on British culture, and performs comedy sketches, games, quizzes, and songs. Activity Book wanted
