Joseph Pearce, author of three books on Shakespeare and writer and presenter of two 13-part television series on Shakespeare’s life and work, offers a guided tour of six of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays: As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Students will be shown how to read and understand the plays in the light of the life and times of Shakespeare himself, enabling them to see the plays as Shakespeare and his audience would have seen them. Such a reading also reveals those timeless truths of timely relevance which make his plays as relevant today as they have always been. All six of these plays treated here are a part of Memoria Press’ Classical Core Curriculum.
