BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and literary critics Harold Bloom and Jacqueline Rose discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare and Bloom’s claim that personality, as we understand it...
Peter Mercer studies the endings of Othello and Macbeth in a manner that resonates backwards through the entire works. He reminds the listener that any group of actors producing and performing drama must use...
Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...
Podcast of a Thursday lecture held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Professor Ewan Fernie offers an argument for a more personal, existentially engaged kind of criticism. And an extended...
Podcast of a one-day seminar on ‘Shakespeare’s Philosophy’ hosted by the Department of English Royal Holloway, University of London in 2010. Professor Wilson talks about how Shakespeare’s plots turn...
R. A. Foakes, University of Kent, and Kenneth Muir, University of Liverpool, discuss the play. Side 2 comprises readings from the play.
G. H, Hunter and Martin Wright, University of Warwick, discuss the problems of heroic villainy in Macbeth, Richard III and The Jew of Malta.
Twenty-six part series on literature and literary analysis designed for college and high school classes and presented by Fran Dorn. Episode 19 uses Hamlet to illustrate the development of dramatic character...
Podcast of a Thursday lecture held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Professor Alison Shell talks about the deployment of palinodes (recantations) and the idea of reversal and repentance...
Third episode of a three-part radio programme featuring readings from Samuel Johnson’s major works, read by Michael Pennington and introduced by Johnson’s biographer David Nokes. This episode includes...
Learning on Screen