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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shakespeare, Mind and World |
Tom MacFaul discusses how Shakespeare’s age thought about thinking. In particular, he looks at... |
Tom MacFaul |
| 2 | Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears" |
A second Masterclass on how Shakespeare spins rhetoric for the actor, with Sam Leith, journalist... |
Gregory Doran, Sam Leith |
| 3 | Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin' |
A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company looking at what clues... |
Gregory Doran |
| 4 | The language of Shakespeare |
Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student... |
Kate O'Connor |
| 5 | Understanding Shakespeare |
The actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it... |
Nick Lyons |
| 6 | Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director |
The director talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare... |
Kate O'Connor |
| 7 | The Tempest: For you am I this patient log-man |
The director and actors talk about the log-scene in The Tempest and how they interpret and... |
Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley |
| 8 | The Tempest: Our revels now are ended |
The famous Shakespeare scene from The Tempest, performed by actors from an Oxford student drama... |
Dylan Townley |
| 9 | The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Conveying Shakespeare's meaning |
The actor Dylan Townley talks about the language of Shakespeare. He describes how understanding... |
Dylan Townley |
| 10 | The Tempest: Prospero |
Actor Dylan Townley talks with director Archie Cornish about the character Prospero. They... |
Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley |
| 11 | The Tempest: Direction and interpretation |
Director Archie Cornish and actor Dylan Townley - Prospero - talk about adapting, directing and... |
Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley |
| 12 | Teaching Shakespeare in Schools |
A teacher talks about how she teaches Shakespeare in school, using video clips and references... |
Joyti Chandegra |
| 13 | The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Bringing a scene to Life |
The director Archie Cornish, and actor Dylan Townley, introduce the Revel speech in The Tempest... |
Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley |
| 14 | Shakespeare and the Stage |
Professor Tiffany Stern gives a talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in... |
Tiffany Stern |
| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Timon of Athens |
Emma Smith finishes her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Timon of... |
Emma Smith |
| 2 | Romeo and Juliet |
This lecture on Romeo and Juliet tackles the issue of the spoiler-chorus, in an already-too-... |
Emma Smith |
| 3 | Coriolanus |
This lecture takes up a detail from Shakespeare’s late Roman tragedy Coriolanus to ask about the... |
Emma Smith |
| 4 | Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears" |
A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company on how Shakespeare... |
Gregory Doran, Sam Leith |
| 5 | Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin' |
A practical Masterclass looking at what clues Shakespeare puts into the verse for the actor.... |
Gregory Doran |
| 6 | Oscar Wilde's Women |
Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context. |
Sophie Duncan |
| 7 | Shakespeare and Voice |
Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare'... |
Linda Gates |
| 8 | Shakespeare Lectures |
Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser's lectures on the life and work of William Shakespeare. Recorded in 1965... |
Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser |
| 9 | Shakespeare and the Stage |
Professor Tiffany Stern gives a talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in... |
Tiffany Stern |
| 10 | Richard II |
Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II... |
Emma Smith |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Does Tragedy Teach? |
Third dialogue on the nature of tragedy where they talk about whether tragic theatre teaches... |
Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Defining Tragedy |
First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what '... |
Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings |
| # | Essay Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Importance of Being Wilde |
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" ... |
Kate O'Connor |
| 2 | Aphra Behn |
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a bold, salacious, and pioneering individual. If Frances Burney made... |
Kate O'Connor |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Why Shakespeare Was Shakespeare |
Since the release of the film 'Anonymous' in 2011, the odds have increased dramatically of being... |
Kate O'Connor |
| 5 | Who Killed Christopher Marlowe (and Why)? | Kate O'Connor | |
| 6 | Renaissance Theatre |
When John Brayne built the Red Lion Theatre in London’s Whitechapel in 1569, he could hardly... |
Emma Smith |
| # | Title | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shakespeare and Stage Costume |
Text upon which this Online Edition is Based: “Shakespeare and Stage Costume,” in The... |
Oscar Wilde |
| 2 | Shakespeare and Music | Christopher Wilson | |
| 3 | 'A Talk for Twelfth Night' |
This essay on Shakespeare's play 'Twelfth Night' by Arthur Machen forms chapter fifteen of the... |
Arthur Machen |
| 4 | 'Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare' |
Chapter taken from Issac Disraeli's collection of essay entitled 'Curiosities of Literature',... |
Issac Disraeli |