STEP 1

• Shakespeare tells you 'How' but not 'Why' FREE

STEP 2

• Understanding the difference between prose and verse (beginner) FREE
• Understanding the difference between prose and verse (advanced)

STEP 3

• Understanding status FREE
• Understanding you and thou (beginner) FREE
• Understanding you and thou (advanced)

STEP 4

• Understanding emphasis and stress FREE
• Understanding metre and rhythm (beginner) FREE
• Understanding metre and rhythm (intermediate)
• Understanding metre and rhythm (advanced)

STEP 5

• Understanding verse line-endings (beginner) FREE
• Understanding verse line-endings (advanced)
• Understanding caesuras and mid-line endings

STEP 6

• Understanding irregular line lengths
• Understanding short lines and shared lines
• Understanding elision and expansion (beginner) FREE
• Understanding elision and expansion (advanced)

STEP 7

• Understanding antithesis (beginner) FREE
• Understanding antithesis (advanced)
• Understanding repetition and synonyms (beginner) FREE
• Understanding repetition and synonyms (advanced)
• Understanding speech build FREE
• Understanding lists and odd orders
• Understanding puns and innuendo FREE
• Understanding alliteration and assonance FREE
• Understanding monosyllabic v. Latinate lines
• Understanding simple lines v. complex lines

STEP 8

• Understanding the difference between pace and speed FREE
• Understanding sarcasm and sardonic wit
• Understanding irony
• Understanding illustration FREE

STEP 9

• Understanding Elizabethan pronunciation FREE
• The Great Vowel Shift and the problem of rhyme and puns
• Understanding Elizabethan punctuation (Quartos and First Folio) FREE
• Understanding Elizabethan rhetoric
• Understanding Elizabethan theatre & stage craft FREE

STEP 10 - SUMMARY

• Respecting the architecture of verse FREE
• Interpretations of Shakespeare – the good and the bad FREE