I have finally completed Foundations of Shakespeare, now available from the Academic Agency. https://www.academic-agency.com/courses/foundations-of-shakespeare
The promocode: surejan should work until 19th January for 25% off. This was a lot of work, but also like a strange journey for me personally visiting my past lives and my past selves, plundering old lectures, notes, books, and so on to make this as comprehensive as possible. This is also a defiantly “non-woke” Shakespeare course given that I deliberately ignore most scholarship produced since 1980. Hope you enjoy.
I don’t know how popular it would be, but I’d be willing to buy a beefy tour guide book of Shakespeare criticism, with emphasis on critics who are not retarded. I accidentally read Characters of Shakespear’s Plays by William Hazlitt a while ago and wonder what other top-shelf books have fallen through the cracks, given the sad state of the Academy.
AA, yesterday on office hours there was a super chat which couldn’t be answered on YouTube. Would you be able to add a response on Substack or throw up a few links to sources where we could find out more information?