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1	Great Writers Inspire- An Introduction to the Project	A short introductory video to the "Great Writers Inspire project.	Joshua Carr
2	Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"?	Dr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series...	Catherine Brown
3	Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting	Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including...	Catherine Brown
4	Literature and Form 2: Chapters	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series of talks introducing different writing forms and their use...	Catherine Brown
5	Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great...	Catherine Brown
6	John Milton	Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they...	Anna Beer
7	First year English Tutorial: Old English Riddles	A tutorial given by Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College, Oxford University, to some first year...	Lucinda Rumsey
8	Old English Tour - British Library	Enhanced Podcast Tour of the Old English Manuscripts on display at the British Library by Dr S....	Stuart Lee

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1	Why should we study Johnson?	Professor Ros Ballaster of Mansfield College, Oxford, discusses her current research and...	Ros Ballaster, Sarah Wilkin
2	Why should we study Postcolonial Literature?	Professor Elleke Boehmer of Wolfson College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes...	Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Wilkin
3	Why should we study Chaucer?	Dr Laura Ashe of Worcester College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we...	Laura Ashe, Ilana Lassman
4	Why should we study Shakespeare?	Dr Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we...	Emma Smith, Ilana Lassman
5	Why should we study Dickens?	Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and...	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Ilana Lassman
6	"Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture	Historian Stella Tillyard delivers the fourth Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing and Portraiture....	Stella Tillyard
7	W.B. Yeats and the Ghost Club	Dr Tara Stubbs uses exciting new research findings to discuss the close links between Yeats...	Tara Stubbs
8	The Merchant of Venice	This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships...	Emma Smith
9	Taming of the Shrew	Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the...	Emma Smith
10	A Midsummer Night's Dream	This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of...	Emma Smith
11	Language and History	Prof. Simon Horobin examines how the English language has changed over time, addressing such...	Simon Horobin
12	Much Ado About Nothing	Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John...	Emma Smith
13	Hamlet	The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play'...	Emma Smith
14	As You Like It	Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's...	Emma Smith
15	Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"?	Dr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series...	Catherine Brown
16	Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting	Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including...	Catherine Brown
17	Literature and Form 2: Chapters	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series of talks introducing different writing forms and their use...	Catherine Brown
18	Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great...	Catherine Brown
19	John Milton	Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they...	Anna Beer
20	Why Dickens?	Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made...	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
21	King Lear	Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King...	Emma Smith
22	King John	At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the...	Emma Smith
23	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the...	Emma Smith
24	Richard III	In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the...	Emma Smith
25	The Comedy of Errors	Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical...	Emma Smith
26	History of English Pronunciation	Do we really know what Chaucer's poetry sounded like? Professor Simon Horobin introduces...	Simon Horobin
27	Henry IV part 1	Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John...	Emma Smith
28	The Tempest	That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The...	Emma Smith
29	Antony and Cleopatra	What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The...	Emma Smith
30	Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)	Professor Charlotte Brewer introduces the methodology behind the creation of the OED and how...	Charlotte Brewer
31	English and Gender	Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by...	Deborah Cameron
32	Twelfth Night	The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio...	Emma Smith
33	Titus Andronicus	Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth...	Emma Smith
34	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
35	Macbeth	In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes...	Emma Smith
36	Measure for Measure	The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question...	Emma Smith
37	The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained	From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Emma Smith reveals how Oxford University mobilised Alumni support...	Emma Smith
38	The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster	In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy...	Emma Smith
39	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
40	The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton	A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and...	Emma Smith
41	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
42	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
43	The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd	Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes...	Emma Smith
44	First year English Tutorial: Old English Riddles	A tutorial given by Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College, Oxford University, to some first year...	Lucinda Rumsey
45	Old English in Context Lecture 4 - Manuscripts	Fourth and final lecture by Dr S D Lee, University of Oxford, on Old English in Context. 7/2/08...	Stuart Lee
46	Old English in Context Lecture 3 - Religion and Magic	Lecture 3 in a series on placing Old English in Context, Religion and magic. Delivered by Dr S D...	Stuart Lee
47	Old English in Context Lecture 2 - Society	Lecture delivered by Dr Stuart D Lee, 24/1/08, English Faculty, University of Oxford on Anglo-...	Stuart Lee
48	Old English in Context Lecture 1 - Historical texts	Lecture by Dr S. D. Lee, Faculty of English, Oxford University - placing Old English literature...	Stuart Lee
49	Anglo-Saxon Tour - British Museum	Audio only Tour of the Anglo-Saxon exhibits on display at the British Museum by Dr S. D. Lee,...	Stuart Lee
50	Beowulf reading, ll. 26-52	Reading from Beowulf ll. 26-52 by Stuart D Lee, University of Oxford. Recorded March 2007.	Stuart Lee
51	Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reading	Reading from an entry in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Stuart D Lee, University of Oxford....	Stuart Lee
52	Old English Tour - British Library	Audio Only Tour of the Old English Manuscripts on display at the British Library by Dr S. D. Lee...	Stuart Lee

#	Title	Description	Author
1	Arden of Faversham: Anon (eBook)	Arden of Feversham / Unknown. This is the epub edition of the play.	Anonymous

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