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The Tempest Webinar (Recording)

(NOTE: This is a recording of a previously live webinar.)

Storms and time. The sea and the soul. Dreams and imagination.

Shakespeare’s last play is one of only two with a plot that’s original to him. In this webinar we will explore the author’s inspiration, discuss the original audience’s expectations, and find the harmony in this tale of vengeance and love.

 

Can’t make the live session? No problem! The webinar will be recorded and available for you to view in your account shortly after the session (usually within 24 hours.)

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How do I view the Live session? On your receipt is a link; click the link and enter the webinar. There will also be an email sent out one hour  before the session with the link and detailed instructions.

How do I view the recording? Log in to your account on www.houseofhumaneletters.com, click on My Account and then Orders to view the recording. Videos typically appear in your account within 24 hours.

Bio:

Kelly Cumbee has loved music, nature, and stories as long as she can remember and believes that they are all connected. She has homeschooled her seven children for over twenty-five years, mostly by sitting in her rocking chair and reading aloud to them what she herself wanted to learn. A life-long student, she has spent the last two years in Angelina’s Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Early Modern Literature classes where she has had the pleasure of absorbing Angelina’s method of opening up literature through metaphor and form.

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The Faerie Queene 2022

The Faerie Queene High School & Adult Instructor: Kelly Cumbee Self-Paced Only REQUIRED TEXTS I have found three editions which I can recommend for this class. Every edition has the same…

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Self-Paced Classes

Self-Paced Classes Year-Long Self-Paced Classes  All of our classes are available as self-paced classes. The self-paced option allows a student to view the classes on his own time. The content…

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Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene High School and Adults Instructor: Kelly Cumbee Self-Paced Only Recommended Editions: (you can find affiliate links here.) I have found three editions which I can recommend for…

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Fellowship

The Fellowship A Literary Mentorship Program Students and teachers have been asking me for years to develop a mentorship program--a way for students to be personally mentored and trained by…

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Speaker Bios

Meet Our Speakers Our keynote speaker for this year's Literary Life Online Conference is Dr. Jason M. Baxter. Dr. Baxter is associate visiting professor in Notre Dame’s Great Books program…

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King Lear Webinar

Streaming Video of Webinar. To View the Videos after purchase, log in, click Orders, then View, then Click Here to View the Videos, and you will be taken to the video player and playlist.

King Lear is one of the darkest and most violent of Shakespeare’s tragedies, but just as the lightning flashes through the storm on the heath, there are moments of sublime beauty in this bleak play. Kelly Cumbee will help you enter the Elizabethan imagination so that you can see not just the madness of King Lear and the chaos created by his abdication, but the light and hope embedded in this masterpiece, this “fierce dispute, / Betwixt damnation and impassion’d clay.”

Instructor: Kelly Cumbee
“On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again”
~ John Keats
O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute!
   Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away!
   Leave melodizing on this wintry day,
Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute:
Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute,
   Betwixt damnation and impassion’d clay
   Must I burn through; once more humbly assay
The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit.
Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion,
   Begetters of our deep eternal theme,
When through the old oak forest I am gone,
   Let me not wander in a barren dream,
But when I am consumed in the fire,
Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.

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