Part 1. Lecture 1: Defining tragedy
Lecture 2: Shakespearean tragedy in context
Lecture 3: Hamlet I
"Stand and unfold yourself"
Lecture 4: Hamlet II
The performance of revenge
Lecture 5: Hamlet III
Difficult women
Lecture 6: Hamlet IV
Uncontainable Hamlet
Lecture 7: Othello I
Miscegenation and mixed messages
Lecture 8: Othello II
Monstrous births
Lecture 9: Othello III
"Ocular proof"
Lecture 10: Othello IV
Tragic knowledge
Lecture 11: King Lear I
Kingship and kinship
Lecture 12: King Lear II
"Unaccommodated man."

Part 2. Lecture 13: King Lear III
The stage of fools
Lecture 14: King Lear IV
"Is this the promised end?"
Lecture 15: Macbeth I
Desire and equivocation
Lecture 16: Macbeth II
"Dispute it like a man"
Lecture 17: Macbeth III
Bloody babes and bloody ends
Lecture 18: Antony and Cleopatra I
Epic desires
Lecture 19: Antony and Cleopatra II
Identity politics
Lecture 20: Antony and Cleopatra III
The art of dying
Lecture 21: Coriolanus I
The loner and the mob
Lecture 22: Coriolanus II
The theater of politics
Lecture 23: Coriolanus III
Mothers and killers
Lecture 24: Conclusion
Beyond tragedy?