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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tolkien and Languages: Ancient and Invented |
Interview with Dr Elizabeth Solopova from the Bodlian Library on the influence of medieval... |
Elizabeth Solopova, Stuart Lee |
| 2 | Tolkien's Languages |
These lectures cover an introduction to J R R Tolkien's career, show how medieval literature... |
Elizabeth Solopova |
| 3 | The Merchant of Venice |
This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships... |
Emma Smith |
| 4 | Taming of the Shrew |
Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the... |
Emma Smith |
| 5 | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of... |
Emma Smith |
| 6 | Language and History |
Prof. Simon Horobin examines how the English language has changed over time, addressing such... |
Simon Horobin |
| 7 | Much Ado About Nothing |
Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John... |
Emma Smith |
| 8 | Hamlet |
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play'... |
Emma Smith |
| 9 | As You Like It |
Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's... |
Emma Smith |
| 10 | King Lear |
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King... |
Emma Smith |
| 11 | King John |
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the... |
Emma Smith |
| 12 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the... |
Emma Smith |
| 13 | Richard III |
In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the... |
Emma Smith |
| 14 | The Comedy of Errors |
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical... |
Emma Smith |
| 15 | History of English Pronunciation |
Do we really know what Chaucer's poetry sounded like? Professor Simon Horobin introduces... |
Simon Horobin |
| 16 | Henry IV part 1 |
Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John... |
Emma Smith |
| 17 | The Tempest |
That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The... |
Emma Smith |
| 18 | Antony and Cleopatra |
What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The... |
Emma Smith |
| 19 | Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) |
Professor Charlotte Brewer introduces the methodology behind the creation of the OED and how... |
Charlotte Brewer |
| 20 | Richard II |
Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II... |
Emma Smith |
| 21 | English and Gender |
Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by... |
Deborah Cameron |
| 22 | Twelfth Night |
The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio... |
Emma Smith |
| 23 | Titus Andronicus |
Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth... |
Emma Smith |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Macbeth |
In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes... |
Emma Smith |
| 26 | Measure for Measure |
The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question... |
Emma Smith |
| 27 | The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster |
In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy... |
Emma Smith |
| 28 | The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker |
Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-... |
Emma Smith |
| 29 | The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton |
A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and... |
Emma Smith |
| 30 | The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker |
Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a... |
Emma Smith |
| 31 | Arden of Faversham: Anon |
A true crime story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife and her lover, this play is... |
Emma Smith |
| 32 | The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd |
Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes... |
Emma Smith |
| # | Essay Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah Howe - Artefacts of Writing |
In her exquisite first collection,... |
Peter D McDonald |
| 2 | Kirsty Gunn - Artefacts of Writing |
At the end of the street where I lived, a... |
Peter D McDonald |
| # | Title | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arden of Faversham: Anon (eBook) |
Arden of Feversham / Unknown. This is the epub edition of the play. |
Anonymous |