Peter Saccio

Ph.D., Princeton University

Dartmouth College

Dr. Peter Saccio is Leon D. Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies and Professor of English Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He also served as a visiting professor at Wesleyan University and at University College in London. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

At Dartmouth, Professor Saccio was honored with the J. Kenneth Huntington Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Professor Saccio is the author of Shakespeare’s English Kings, which has become a classic in its field. He is also the editor of Thomas Middleton’s comedy A Mad World, My Masters, for the Oxford Complete Works of Thomas Middleton.

Professor Saccio is also an accomplished actor and theatrical director. He directed productions of Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Cymbeline, and devised and directed several programs of scenes from Shakespeare and from modern British drama. His acting credits include the Shakespearean roles of Casca, Angelo, Bassanio, and Henry IV, as well as various parts in the ancient and modern plays.

Save Up To $275	Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies Professor Peter Saccio Professor Peter Saccio—an award-winning Ivy League Professor of Shakespeare studies—is your guide for this marvelous exploration of 15 of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Learn how our most abundant poet and dramatist has been moving, delighting, and enlightening readers and audiences for 400 years, with no end in sight.

	Shakespeare: The Word and the Action Professor Peter Saccio Teaching as a trained actor and director as well as a scholar, and assisted by two additional actors, Professor Peter Saccio explores selected works by Shakespeare. You will be entertained and informed as you analyze how Shakespeare used the resources of the English language and the Elizabethan theater to scale artistic heights never matched before or since.

	Modern British Drama Professor Peter Saccio Waiting for Godot. The Importance of Being Earnest. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Since Shakespeare's time, no period has produced more brilliant and varied theater in Great Britain than its last 100 years. For Modern British Drama, Professor Peter Saccio has selected the major British playwrights of the past century to cover: Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Beckett, Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill, and Hare. Through their masterful plays, you explore the fascinating ways that drama can celebrate (or satirize) the manners of the elite, assault the socio-political establishment, probe the existential anxiety of the modern age, and more.

	History of the English Language, 2nd Edition & William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (Set) Professor Peter Saccio Discover the origins of the English language and learn how Western civilization's greatest writer used it to create some of literature's most profound masterpieces in this two-course set. In The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition, investigate the remarkable history of English from the powerful prose of the medieval King Alfred to the modern-day sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Then, in Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, discover what makes William Shakespeare the leading writer in Western civilization.

Save Up To $460	How to Read and Understand Shakespeare & William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (Set) Professor Peter Saccio Learn the tools to understand any Shakespeare play and explore 15 of Shakespeare's greatest plays in the company of an award-winning professor, actor, and director in this all-Shakespeare set. First, in How to Read and Understand Shakespeare, Professor Marc C. Conner gives you a set of more than 40 interpretive tools, drawn from the texts themselves, that give you direct insight into Shakespeare's plays. Then, in William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, Professor Peter Saccio explains the achievement that makes Shakespeare the leading playwright in Western civilization as he delves into Shakespeare's signature plays.

	Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies & Shakespeare's Tragedies (Set) Professor Peter Saccio Learn new ways to read the masterpieces of Western literature's greatest writer with this two-course set on the works and genius of William Shakespeare. In Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, actor and award-winning Professor Peter Saccio introduces the plays of Shakespeare and explains the achievement that makes them invaluable parts of the Western literary canon. Then, in Shakespeare's Tragedies, Professor Claire Kinney takes you deep within the Bard's six great tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus.

	Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies & Shakespeare: The Word and the Action (Set) Professor Peter Saccio Learn new ways to read Shakespeare's masterpieces with the guidance of actor and award-winning Professor Peter Saccio. Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies takes you to the vibrant heart of 15 of the Bard's most masterful plays. Shakespeare: The Word and the Action teaches you how to approach the playwright's works with a keen ear for their language, style, and contexts.

	Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies & Dante's Divine Comedy (Set) Professor Peter Saccio Read between the lines of enduring masterpieces by two of Western civilization's greatest writers in this illuminating course set. Start by exploring Dante's great work of spiritual and medieval poetry in Dante's Divine Comedy. Then, in Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, get an introduction to some of the hallmark plays of William Shakespeare and discover exactly what makes him the definitive author of the Western literary tradition.

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