A History of Great Playwrights - Program 3: The Theater Turns Inward
About this title: As the Age of Industrialization reached its zenith in Europe and America, playwrights responded by delving into the depths of the human mind. Program three shows how European and American playwrights turned to psychology for inspir...
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 4: The Theater Responds to Modernism
About this title: Program four examines how the epicenter of the theater and playwriting shifted to the United States, and how the musical became a major part of the theater.
About the Series: From the beginnings of western democracy in ancient Gre...
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 1: Antiquity to the Renaissance
About this title: Program one examines the origins of plays and the earliest playwrights in Ancient Greece to the influences from Greek and Roman theater and the Renaissance writers of the Elizabethan Age.
About the Series: From the beginnings of w...
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 5: The Great Resurgence of the Theater
About this title: At the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st, change engulfed the world from social issues to the transmission of information. In Program five we'll see how playwrights dealt with the psychological and social change...
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 2: The Theater Responds to Industrialization
About this title: Program two investigates how playwrights all over Europe reacted to social change in the Age of Industrialization.
About the Series: From the beginnings of western democracy in ancient Greece, plays have been a part of the human e...
Great Poets of The World - Episode 3: Poets of the European Continent
About this title: The opening segment explains that one of the many contributions Dante made to European and world literature, was the concept of the "Muse", the Beatrice he followed to the Gates of Hell in "The Divine Comedy". His use of "tercets" ...
Neuroscience - Program 1: Brain Basics
About this title: This episode provides an historical perspective on the development of neuroscience, the cross-disciplinary study of brain functionality. The "Grand Discoveries" of Neuroscience occured when microscopes enabled scientists to view ne...
Neuroscience - Program 4: The Thinking and Social Brain
About this title: Bill explains that the central focus of 21st century cognitive neuroscience is the relationships between perception, learning, memory, language, and selective attention--in other words, the relationship between neuroscience and psy...
Neuroscience - Program 3: The Developing Brain
About this title: The opening section address the question, "Why study the brain?" It offers a number of behavioral and mental health issues that may benefit from the study of neuroscience. Neuroscientists have tackled studies of the evolution of th...
Neuroscience - Program 2: Mapping the Brain
About this title: With the help of computer modeling, the second episode highlights brain functions and brain organization. A human brain is dissected to reveal the anatomy of cerebellum, cerebrum, the cerebral cortex, white matter, the corpus callo...