shakespeare
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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 |
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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 |
# | Title | Description | Author |
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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 |
Oscar Wilde |
# | Essay Title | Description | Contributor |
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1 | Why Shakespeare Was Shakespeare | Kate O'Connor |
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1 | Ulysses: Stephen's Shining Moment | ... |