Writing with Shakespeare, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307,
Course Description,
William Shakespeare didn't go to college. If he time-traveled like Dr. Who, he would be stunned to find his words on a university syllabus. However, he would not be surprised at the way we will be using those words in this class, because the study of rhetoric was essential to all education in his day. At Oxford, William Gager argued that drama allowed undergraduates "to try their voices and confirm their memories, and to frame their speech and conform it to convenient action": in other words, drama was useful.
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