shakespeare

#	Title	Description	Contributor
1	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
2	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
3	The Comedy of Errors	Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical...	Emma Smith
4	Twelfth Night	The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio...	Emma Smith
5	Henry V	The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether...	Emma Smith
6	Shakespeare and Medieval Romance	Professor Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge, speaks about the continuities between the...	Helen Cooper
7	Henry IV part 1	Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John...	Emma Smith
8	Richard II	Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II...	Emma Smith
9	Antony and Cleopatra	What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The...	Emma Smith
10	Measure for Measure	The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question...	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	Richard III	In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the...	Emma Smith
13	A Midsummer Night's Dream	This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of...	Emma Smith
14	Othello	Othello - First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the...	Emma Smith
15	King Lear	Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King...	Emma Smith
16	Titus Andronicus	Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth...	Emma Smith
17	Taming of the Shrew	Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the...	Emma Smith
18	Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre?	Professor Tiffany Stern of University College, Oxford, discusses her current research and...	Tiffany Stern, Ilana Lassman
19	Is Tragedy still Alive?	Discussion on whether tragedy still exists in modern culture, whether in films, modern theatre...	Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
20	Shakespeare and the Stage	Professor Tiffany Stern gives a talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in...	Tiffany Stern
21	Shakespeare and Voice	Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare'...	Linda Gates
22	The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained	From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Emma Smith reveals how Oxford University mobilised Alumni support...	Emma Smith
23	The Merchant of Venice	This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships...	Emma Smith
24	Much Ado About Nothing	Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John...	Emma Smith
25	Defining Tragedy	First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what '...	Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
26	Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)	Professor Charlotte Brewer introduces the methodology behind the creation of the OED and how...	Charlotte Brewer
27	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
28	Macbeth	In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes...	Emma Smith
29	Hamlet	The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play'...	Emma Smith
30	Does Tragedy Teach?	Third dialogue on the nature of tragedy where they talk about whether tragic theatre teaches...	Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
31	The Tempest	That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The...	Emma Smith
32	Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting	Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including...	Catherine Brown
33	As You Like It	Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's...	Emma Smith
34	Why should we study Shakespeare?	Dr Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we...	Emma Smith, Ilana Lassman
35	Shakespeare Lectures	Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser's lectures on the life and work of William Shakespeare. Recorded in 1965...	Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser
36	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the...	Emma Smith
37	Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears"	A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company on how Shakespeare...	Gregory Doran, Sam Leith
38	Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin'	A practical Masterclass looking at what clues Shakespeare puts into the verse for the actor....	Gregory Doran
39	Coriolanus	This lecture takes up a detail from Shakespeare’s late Roman tragedy Coriolanus to ask about the...	Emma Smith
40	Romeo and Juliet	This lecture on Romeo and Juliet tackles the issue of the spoiler-chorus, in an already-too-...	Emma Smith
41	Love's Labour's Lost	Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour...	Emma Smith
42	Timon of Athens	Emma Smith finishes her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Timon of...	Emma Smith
43	Cymbeline	Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of...	Emma Smith
44	All's Well That Ends Well	Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well.	Emma Smith
45	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.	Emma Smith
46	Henry VI, Part 2	Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the...	Emma Smith
47	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two...	Emma Smith
48	Shakespeare and the Victorians	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare...	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
49	The Magic of Shakespeare	This lecture will celebrate Shakespeare's immortality on the exact 400th anniversary of his...	Jonathan Bate
50	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

#	Title	Description	Contributor
1	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
2	Great Writers Inspire- An Introduction to the Project	A short introductory video to the "Great Writers Inspire project.	Joshua Carr
3	The language of Shakespeare	Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student...	Kate O'Connor
4	Teaching Shakespeare in Schools	A teacher talks about how she teaches Shakespeare in school, using video clips and references...	Joyti Chandegra
5	Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting	Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including...	Catherine Brown
6	The Tempest: Prospero	Actor Dylan Townley talks with director Archie Cornish about the character Prospero. They...	Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley
7	Shakespeare and the Stage	Professor Tiffany Stern gives a talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in...	Tiffany Stern
8	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
9	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
10	The Tempest: Direction and interpretation	Director Archie Cornish and actor Dylan Townley - Prospero - talk about adapting, directing and...	Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley
11	Understanding Shakespeare	The actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it...	Nick Lyons
12	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
13	The Tempest: Our revels now are ended	The famous Shakespeare scene from The Tempest, performed by actors from an Oxford student drama...	Dylan Townley
14	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
15	Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin'	A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company looking at what clues...	Gregory Doran
16	Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and other elegies	Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. Ben...	Emma Smith
17	Venus and Adonis	Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on...	Katherine Duncan Jones
18	Shakespeare's Animals	Why are animals everywhere in Shakespeare's language? Only two actual animals definitely appear...	Tom MacFaul
19	Shakespeare, Mind and World	Tom MacFaul discusses how Shakespeare’s age thought about thinking. In particular, he looks at...	Tom MacFaul

#	Title	Description	Author
1	The Preface to Shakespeare	'The Preface to Shakespeare'by Samuel Johnson. Together with selected notes on some of the plays...	Samuel Johnson
2	'Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare'	Chapter taken from Issac Disraeli's collection of essay entitled 'Curiosities of Literature',...	Issac Disraeli
3	On 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'	This essay on Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is by Arthur Machen, and forms...	Arthur Machen
4	'A Talk for Twelfth Night'	This essay on Shakespeare's play 'Twelfth Night' by Arthur Machen forms chapter fifteen of the...	Arthur Machen
5	The Preface to Shakespeare	'The preface to Shakespeare' by Samuel Johnson. Together with selected notes on some of the...	Samuel Johnson
6	Shakespeare and Music		Christopher Wilson
7	Shakespeare and Stage Costume	Text upon which this Online Edition is Based: “Shakespeare and Stage Costume,” in The...	Oscar Wilde

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1	Why Shakespeare Was Shakespeare	By Kate O'Connor	Kate O'Connor

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