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# | Title | Description | Contributor |
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1 | Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience |
A joint event hosted by the Theatre Studies and Queer Studies Networks. Sandra Mayer, author of... |
Sandra Mayer, Mary Luckhurst, Dominic Janes, Stefano Evangelista |
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1 | 1594: Shakespeare's most important year |
In the summer of 1594 William Shakespeare decided to invest around £50 to become a shareholder... |
Bart van Es |
2 | The Magic of Shakespeare |
This lecture will celebrate Shakespeare's immortality on the exact 400th anniversary of his... |
Jonathan Bate |
3 | Shakespeare and the Victorians |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare... |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
4 | The Merchant of Venice |
This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships... |
Emma Smith |
5 | Taming of the Shrew |
Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the... |
Emma Smith |
6 | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of... |
Emma Smith |
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 | Henry IV part 1 |
Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John... |
Emma Smith |
16 | The Tempest |
That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The... |
Emma Smith |
17 | Antony and Cleopatra |
What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The... |
Emma Smith |
18 | Twelfth Night |
The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio... |
Emma Smith |
19 | Titus Andronicus |
Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth... |
Emma Smith |
20 | 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 |
21 | Macbeth |
In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes... |
Emma Smith |
22 | Measure for Measure |
The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question... |
Emma Smith |
23 | Henry V |
The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether... |
Emma Smith |
24 | Othello |
Othello - First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the... |
Emma Smith |
25 | Who Translates and for Whom? |
Fourth part of the What is Translation Podcast series. In this part, the question of who is best... |
Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick |
26 | Can Poetry be Translated? |
Third part of the What is Translation podcast series. In this part, the question of whether... |
Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick |
27 | Is there ever a Faithful Translation? |
Second part of the What is Translation podcast series. In this part, the question of whether... |
Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick |
28 | Does Tragedy Teach? |
Third dialogue on the nature of tragedy where they talk about whether tragic theatre teaches... |
Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings |
29 | What does Tragedy do for People? |
A discussion of what the use of tragedy is, and whether the emotional experience of tragic... |
Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings |
30 | Defining Tragedy |
First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what '... |
Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings |
31 | The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster |
In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy... |
Emma Smith |
32 | 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 |
33 | The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton |
A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and... |
Emma Smith |
34 | 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 |
35 | 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 |
36 | 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 |
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1 | Aphra Behn and Poetic Culture |
This essay is the last of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr.... |
Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
2 | Aphra Behn and Political Culture |
This essay is the third of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr.... |
Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
3 | Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre |
This essay is the second of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr.... |
Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
# | Title | Description | Author |
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1 | Arden of Faversham: Anon (eBook) |
Arden of Feversham / Unknown. This is the epub edition of the play. |
Anonymous |