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| # | Title | Description | Contributor | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Post-Colonial Criticism (lecture) | 
             Part of the OpenYale course 'Introduction to Theory of Literature'. Available as audio, video...  | 
                  Paul Fry | 
| # | Title | Description | Contributor | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Merchant of Venice | 
             This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 2 | Taming of the Shrew | 
             Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 3 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 
             This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 4 | Much Ado About Nothing | 
             Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 5 | Hamlet | 
             The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play'...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 6 | As You Like It | 
             Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 7 | King Lear | 
             Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 8 | King John | 
             At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 9 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | 
             Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 10 | Richard III | 
             In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 11 | The Comedy of Errors | 
             Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 12 | Henry IV part 1 | 
             Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 13 | The Tempest | 
             That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 14 | Antony and Cleopatra | 
             What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 15 | Twelfth Night | 
             The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 16 | Titus Andronicus | 
             Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 17 | Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature | 
             Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie...  | 
                  Paul Eggert | 
| 18 | The Winter's Tale | 
             How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 19 | Macbeth | 
             In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 20 | Measure for Measure | 
             The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 21 | Henry V | 
             The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| 22 | Othello | 
             Othello - First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the...  | 
                  Emma Smith | 
| # | Title | Description | Author | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Essays, criticisms and reviews | 
             London : Privately printed [for Wright and Jones?]  | 
                  Oscar Wilde | 
| 2 | Shakespeare and Stage Costume | 
             Text upon which this Online Edition is Based: “Shakespeare and Stage Costume,” in The...  | 
                  Oscar Wilde | 
| 3 | The True Function and Value of Criticism | 
             THE TRUE FUNCTION AND VALUE OF CRITICISM: WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING NOTHING:...  | 
                  Oscar Wilde |