Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 10: Cymbeline

Recorded on Dec 5, 2007.

[@alyoshazeifman4657]

This professor's lectures are awesome. Only wish she had a lecture on every Shakespeare play.

[@sartainja]

Great lecture. It is wonderful how you can educate yourself by watching a video from a Harvard English class.

[@alejandroteruel8784]

At minute 8'43" there is a question about why James (Ist of England, VI of Scotland) was not interested in adding Wales to the union after he was crowned king of the union in 1603. The reason is that Wales had already been annexed to England. To quote the Wikipedia entry on Wales: " The conquest of Wales by Edward I of England was completed by 1283, though Owain Glyndŵr led the Welsh Revolt against English rule in the early 15th century and briefly re-established an independent Welsh principality. The whole of Wales was annexed by England and incorporated within the English legal system under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542". Remember that in his play on Henry V, Shakespeare includes a welsh captain figting for Henry V -Captain Fluellen.

[@cassandrawadkins7037]

I am so grateful to Garber for a deeper understanding of Shakespeare's plays.

[@victoriapero]

Very smart and so helpful! I am so grateful to have access to this terrific series.

[@peterbrown7688]

This is a real university-level lecture; the conversations are also not lacking in intellectual calibre. Not like what goes on at pseudo universities like utrgv in south Texas.

[@playswithbricks]

Same. I'm in a state school in CA. Just the way the professor listens to the student intently at 8:22 mark and asks "and can you say why that is?" was so refreshing. I've had that environment before at a community college but unfortunately not this semester.

[@atitanicrose7541]

Love it, thank you so much.

[@chrispattison5225]

Listening to her read Shakespeare is absolutely brutal

[@KozzmoKnight]

The play seems like a precursor to Sleeping Beauty.

[@snowbelle74]

What is the lecturer’s name please?

[@HarriettHolmes]

Marjorie Garber

[@frankfeldman6657]

I found it a big mess, albeit w a few great scenes. The characters have no inner lives.

[@EliotMcLellan]

C.Y.m.B.e.L.I.n.e -- is she still teaching ShakeSPEARe ? DOES SHE KNOW THAT AT THE END OF THE ORIGINAL WOLFENSTEIN, BJ BLASKOWICZ SHAKES A SPEAR? THE SPEAR OF DESTINY, THANK GOD - WHAT DOES SHE THINK ABOUT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SHAKESPEARE AND THE SPEAR OF DESTINY, IS SHAKESPEARE TO WOLFENSTEIN AS WOLFENSTEIN IS TO DOO0O00O0000000OO0OO0M.

[@dereklords9688]

What the?

[@daydays12]

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