Shakespeare in Community (Act 2): Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare's Poetry
Channel: Jesse Stommel
Date: 2015-04-26

Shakespeare’s lines are filled with words and phrases carrying multiple meanings. In Shakespeare’s time, people were much more accustomed to hearing many meanings simultaneously than we are today. The richness of the aural sounds of Shakespeare language certainly is one of the reasons it was so popular on the stage then. Today, we often have to work a little to hear what his audiences would hear instantly. https://moocs.wisc.edu/mooc/shakespeare-in-community/

Director, Editor, Producer: Jesse Stommel
Producer, Assistant Editor: Catherine DeRose
Producer: Sarah Marty
Producer: R L Widmann
Graphic Designer: Mark Neufeld
Music: Folger Consort

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