All Episodes

Rochester NSFW 10/5/10 2nd and Last class

Plato, 10/5/10: first of two classes

Rochester 10/1/10 First class

Odyssey 4, 10/01/10, Conclusion

! First lecture, RECOVERED, from 9/7/10 on Absalom and Achitophel

! Beginning, recovered, of first (9/17/10) Odyssey Class

Concluding lecture on Dryden

Odyssey part 3: Why Odysseus is No Man

Dryden's subtlety

Odyssey, part 2: the use of oral formulae

Absalom and Achitophel, and Religio Lacici, concluded

First lecture on the Odyssey: Hospitality and Gift Giving

Achilleus, Patroklos, Hector, Priam, and the laws of hospitality

Religio Laici and poetic expertise about politics and theology

Hektor frightens Astyanax, Achilleus plays the lyre

3. Background to Absalom and Achitophel and its Preface

3. Iliad, mainly Book 6

Dryden on Oldham; Oldham on Sodom; Dryden's scatology

Homeric simile in the Iliad

Introduction to Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry

Thamyris and Homer in Milton and Dante

Things new born: conclusion of Winter's Tale and of course

The Winter's Tale, Part 1 (Things Dying)

Antony and Cleopatra concluded

Antony and Cleopatra, third of 4: Antony

Antony and Cleopatra, part 2 of 4

Antony and Cleopatra Part 1

Third talk: Amimetobios on Tense, narration, and loss in Proust; followed by discussion

Second Talk: Nicolas de Warren on Aspects of the Imagination in Proust

First Talk: Dick Moran on The Proustian Involuntary

April Vacation Bonus: Proust and Philosophy, Introduction

Macbeth concluded; 2-week vacation hiatus

Macbeth Part One

King Lear Part 3 - Conclusion

King Lear, second lecture

King Lear: Part 1

Hamlet, part 3: conclusion

Hamlet part 2: Hamlet, Laertes, Introspection, and Drama

Hamlet, Lecture 1

Feb vacation bonus: How to Fix Literary Darwinism

Merchant of Venice

Midsummer Night's Dream, concluded

Richard II conclusion & Midsummer Night's Dream Intro

Richard II, part 3

Second lecture on Richard II

First lecture on Richard II