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Recording of a live illustrated lecture by Anna Beer, which explores what can be divined about Shakespeare the man from his sonnets. Followed by a Q&A.
This lecture on A Midsummer Night’s Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to uncover a play less concerned with marriage and more with sexual desire.
Podcast. Emma Smith speaks on the inevitability of the ending of Richard III: does the play endorse Richmond’s final victory?
Professor Stanley Wells speaks on editing the works of Shakespeare. Professor Wells is co-editor of ‘The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works’ and general editor of the Oxford and Penguin editions of...
Video podcast. A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and...
Podcast. The director Kate O’Connor talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. She describes what makes the play great, and discusses...
Video podcast. Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. Ben Jonson wrote in 1623 that Shakespeare ‘art a Moniment, without a tombe/ And art alive still,...
Podcast. Actors and the director Kate O’Connor talk about how they have approached and worked with their student production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. They discuss some of the challenges of the text and...
Podcast delivered by Professor Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford. The great speech of Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida gives a conventional and orthodox view of the organic...