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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 |
| 2 | Are traditional texts always what they seem? Great Expectations pt2 (lecture) |
Video lecture by Simon Swift, University of Leeds and discussion board. In this second... |
Simon Swift |
| 3 | Are traditional texts always what they seem? Great Expectations pt1 (lecture) |
Video lecture by Simon Swift, University of Leeds and discussion board. |
Simon Swift |
| 4 | The concept of 'literariness' or 'the literary' pt2 |
Dr Katie Mullan and Professor Francis O'Gorman (University of Leeds) discuss the notion of the... |
Katie Mullan, Francis O'Gorman |
| 5 | The concept of 'literariness' or 'the literary' pt1 |
Dr Katie Mullan and Professor Francis O'Gorman (University of Leeds) discuss the notion of the... |
Katie Mullan, Francis O'Gorman |
| 6 | How words, form and structure create meaning: Women and writing (pt2) |
Video podcast and discussion board. |
Simon Swift |
| 7 | How words, form and structure create meaning: Women and writing (pt1) |
Video podcast and discussion forum. By Simon Swift, University of Leeds. |
Simon Swift |
| 8 | Chaucer |
Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first... |
Daniel Wakelin |
| 9 | 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 | Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre? |
Professor Tiffany Stern of University College, Oxford, discusses her current research and... |
Tiffany Stern, Ilana Lassman |
| 2 | Why should we study medieval romance? |
Dr Nicholas Perkins of St Hugh's College, Oxford, discusses his current research and... |
Nicholas Perkins, Sarah Wilkin |
| 3 | Why should we study Johnson? |
Professor Ros Ballaster of Mansfield College, Oxford, discusses her current research and... |
Ros Ballaster, Sarah Wilkin |
| 4 | Why should we study Postcolonial Literature? |
Professor Elleke Boehmer of Wolfson College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes... |
Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Wilkin |
| 5 | Why should we study Chaucer? |
Dr Laura Ashe of Worcester College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we... |
Laura Ashe, Ilana Lassman |
| 6 | Why should we study Shakespeare? |
Dr Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we... |
Emma Smith, Ilana Lassman |
| 7 | Why should we study Dickens? |
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and... |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Ilana Lassman |
| 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 | Much Ado About Nothing |
Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John... |
Emma Smith |
| 12 | Hamlet |
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play'... |
Emma Smith |
| 13 | As You Like It |
Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's... |
Emma Smith |
| 14 | A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. |
Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early... |
Sally Bayley |
| 15 | King Lear |
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King... |
Emma Smith |
| 16 | King John |
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the... |
Emma Smith |
| 17 | Richard III |
In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the... |
Emma Smith |
| 18 | The Comedy of Errors |
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical... |
Emma Smith |
| 19 | The Tempest |
That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The... |
Emma Smith |
| 20 | Antony and Cleopatra |
What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The... |
Emma Smith |
| 21 | Richard II |
Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II... |
Emma Smith |
| 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 | Henry V |
The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether... |
Emma Smith |
| 28 | Othello |
Othello - First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the... |
Emma Smith |
| # | Essay Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Anonymous Jane Austen |
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous authors in the western canon (possibly helped... |
Kate O'Connor |