In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About "How to Succeed" by Confucius - #RocktheQuote

In this video, a director (Nadia Fall) and writer (Inua Ellams) discuss their working relationship and the process of creating a play about war with a young cast. They also share a personal story about a letter from a man who fought in...

Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding (like your favorite romance novel), and romance novels are full of tropes reflected upon its history. It has been the subject...

Amy Nawrocki is a poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Bridgeport. I graduated with a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and I earned my M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. She lives now in Hamden,...

In this video, a playwright shares her thoughts on the importance of limitations and boundaries in creative work, particularly in theater. She discusses how the stage can be a metaphorical space and how the size and intimacy of the play...

In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About Friendship by William Shakespeare - #RocktheQuote

In today's video we'll be looking at a reading, summary, and analysis of William Shakespeare's sonnet 116: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds." Through this close reading we'll look at what love is, is not, and how true love endures.

In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About Eleanor Roosevelt's Quote on on Feeling Inferior

Follow William Shakespeare through 16th and 17th Century London, as the bard created many of the most important works ever written. William Shakespeare enters the theatrical world. This video is part 2 of the series 'Understanding...

C.S. Lewis part 7 of 11: The video explores the childhood home of CS Lewis in Little Lee, east Belfast, where he first started writing and creating stories with his brother. It also touches on the tragic loss of their mother and how it...

Few writers have had the sheer staying power, popularity, and prolific output as Stephen King. From insatiably flesh-hungry clowns and sentient cars to telekinetic teenagers and mystical gunslingers, if there’s one author who has taken...

In this video, a group of actors discuss their experiences and mistakes in theater, as well as their opinions on Shakespeare's characters and relationships. They also answer questions about acting and love, providing insightful and...

In this reading, summary, and analysis we'll look at Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night."

In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About "A Great Man is Always Willing to be Little" - quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lives and rights of women in Greece, from a modern perspective, seem severely limited; yet, they played important roles in society.

What really crashed down to Earth in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? Can we trust the government when they say it was just a weather balloon? Today Danielle looks at the history of alien conspiracies and what they teach us about the legacy...

In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About Albert Camus' Quote on Friendship

Samuel Langhorne Clements was born in 1835 in Florida, Missouri. By the time of his death in 1910, he was known around the world as Mark Twain, “the first truly American writer” and the country’s greatest humorist. In his lifetime, he...

Othello, the timeless battle of good versus evil. The sinister Iago is pitted against Othello, a man of honor. Desdemona presents Othello with a hankerchief as he is ill but he does not take it and she drops it to the floor. Iago finds...

The Iliad is the greatest war story ever told, and my middle school class tried to figure out why using data analysis.

C.S. Lewis part 3 of 11: This video explores the childhood and upbringing of CS Lewis in East Belfast, highlighting how his surroundings and imagination influenced his literary works, particularly the Chronicles of Narnia. It also...

A short overview of a hotly debated topic. Should language function through a set of official guidelines and rules or does language belong to its speakers? Prescriptive = language should follow a set structure of rules. Descriptive =...

In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About "A Successful Person" by Vince Lombardi

Othello, the timeless battle of good versus evil. The sinister Iago is pitted against Othello, a man of honor. Iago is passed over for a promotion by Othello. This video is part 2 of the series 'Understanding Shakespeare: Othello'.