humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 24, 7:11=A0pm, Alcibiades wrote:
> I've come across these lectures from The Teaching Company:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yqkd74
>
> &
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ypf3ed
>
> &
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2z38v9
>
> Any good? Good necessarily means that they don't push postmodernist/
> deconstructionist, historicist, new historicist, gnostic, neo-gnostic,
> feminist, neo-feminist, or any other contemporary agenda-driven
> nonsense.

I've gotten Teaching Company tapesets out from the public library many
times, on topics new to me and on topics I know something about. I
find they tend to present very clearly the mainstream consensus view,
discuss the controversies, and present major alternative views from
the point of view of the mainstream.

--Which is basically exactly what you'd want from an intro to a new
field of study: This may rile up the authorship deviants among us,
but keep in mind that the Baconians might like a presentation by
Oxfordians less, etc.

So, in general, I find the Teaching Company's stuff to be very good:
about equivalent to the instruction you'd get at a decent college
course.


Conrad.