What a delight. I know it resounds, but You Tube is a treasure for those of us that never had the chance to study under such people. Thank You.

Thank you. These lectures are a pleasure to watch.

Thank you for this amazing lecture! Love the connections you draw with King Lear.

Thank you! What an opportunity to hear a deeply explanation of The Tempest.

I saw Timon at Stratford in Ontario in about 1959-61.  Actors wore modern dress.

Love the William Buckley quote, gutsy to have made it too.

Great lecture!

This was brilliant.

Thankyou for sharing the lectures 🙂

I have to translate the tempest into spanish so it will be more singable as an opera, I've written two 20 minute spanish operas already, but this will be real long.  I wrote 2 little operas and two rock operas in 2021.  When I sit in a class I make something of it

42:00 Kings more interested in philosophy : Rudolf II (1576 - 1612)      
He shut himself away, invited various scholars, filled his castle with saucy paintings,
dabbled in all sorts - alchemy, astrology, etc
He was finally deposed, but only after a good long innings.

13:50 The nobles are calibans and the calibans are noble. Parallel to king Lear and the Duke of Cornwall being more vile than his servant.
Don't mind me, it's late and I need this for me thesis 😂

Interpretation on an academic level. A delight for us, but how much of this does the audience get?

Futility of our Desires!!!
Desire in all its length and depth,in all its Spectra,its Prismic perspectives

Best version is Bob Jones U. on facebook, but it leaves out the song of Juno and Ceres.

@1:10:00

Superb

Nice

i am greatly impressed by the way issue of rape is dealt with(in defense of caliban). i was anticipating things like rape may have different definition in another culture, or that - isn't prospero's act of colonising the island also an act of rape.. etc. But NO. None of this compromise.