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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 17   AIL 1626 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Shakespeare Across the Band

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The idea

He wrote sonnets in the sequence tradition, comedies exploiting the casting conventions, and tragedies in blank verse. Unit fifteen treated him as an exam problem in his own right. Within this band he is the writer most likely to appear and the one already best prepared.

In practice

Sonnets, comedies, tragedies, one writer.

Where people slip

Unit fifteen prepared him already.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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