Presenting William Shakespeare
Thomas Klise
Four hundred years ago, there lived in England an actor, poet, and playwright named William Shakespeare. This superb two-part set offers a look at ...
View full detailsFour hundred years ago, there lived in England an actor, poet, and playwright named William Shakespeare. This superb two-part set offers a look at ...
View full detailsShakespeare’s Hamlet is a work of drama and movement, full of stalking ghosts and fencing matches, pirate ships and dark castles. Despite this cons...
View full detailsThis presentation of the life and works of George Orwell offers a portrait of a political writer whose major themes are man and his state, surely a...
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View full detailsGeoffrey Chaucer was the first major personality in English literature, and his accounts of the medieval world are unmatched by an historian. Part ...
View full detailsWilliam Wordsworth is the greatest figure of the Romantic Age in English literature, and ranks with Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton as one of the ...
View full detailsThis program provides an in-depth discussion of the four basic types of point of view: omniscient, limited omniscient, first person, and objective....
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View full detailsWhile the novel as a literary form has existed for only 300 years, there can be no thorough study of literature without an examination of this lite...
View full detailsThis unit seeks to acquaint students with figures of speech and how they work, with definitions of such writing tools as hyperbole, antithesis, iro...
View full detailsAleksandr Solzhenitsyn symbolizes the conscience of the Soviet Union, and his literature presents the inhumanity of any society that fails to value...
View full detailsForming the plurals of English singular nouns represents yet another case in which our fascinating language displays great diversity, if not always...
View full detailsJane Austen is one of the few writers that is a favorite of both literary scholars and the reading public, and her six novels rank among the classi...
View full detailsThe plot of a novel or story represents its structure, the mechanism that propels it from beginning to end. It is plot that keeps a reader turning ...
View full detailsThis program shows how phrases add richness and clarity to our language. It teaches the importance of phrases, their different uses, and the vital ...
View full detailsGuy DeMaupassant fashioned many unforgettable stories and characters and, for himself, a place in history as the father of the modern short story. ...
View full detailsOften, the same young “Shakespeare” who composes manuscripts that glow with creativity will groan with frustration when confronted with the problem...
View full detailsFor Algerian-born Albert Camus, World War II raised ethical doubts and questions about the “dilemma of existence itself.” In his plays, essays, and...
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