The Standard Deviants - Shakespeare Tragedies - Origins and Style

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Summary: Deviants Do Shakespeare
Review: If you are not familiar with the standard deviants (I wasn't before seeing this tape), they take complex learning subjects (those that were such a bore in school) and present them in an entertaining, visually interesting way. Like any good training video, it focuses on concepts, very few specifics... (specifics are easily forgotten when you turn the tape off...) Several young people all share the duties of expert and host so specific learnings are associated with different people. Thats a pretty good concept and it works well in this episode. In this episode they talk about Shakespeare and set up a bit about the world he lived and wrote in. they also explore the history of tragedy as well as briefly chatting about 6 of his shows including TITUS ANDRONICUS, HAMLET, KING LEAR, ROMEO AND JULIET, MACBETH and OTHELLO. This is an interesting tape, but the subject might still be better treated in an always accesible hard copy format, such as a SHAKESPEARE FOR DUMMIES... Especially for the technologically challenged.