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Is it possible that Shakespeare sourced the narrative for some of his most significant works from the unpublished writing of one George North? The Independent scholar, Dennis McCarthy and Professor Charles...
Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Julia Lupton, University of California, Irvine, about what William...
Video podcast. Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on Venus and Adonis. In 1592-93, with London playhouses closed because of plague, Shakespeare wrote...
Jealousy decimates a reunion between old friends, a once happy marriage and the childhood of a princess. In Act 1 scene 2, part 1, Polixenes wishes to return home but Hermione persuades him to stay. Leontes...
Podcast. Weekly showdown hosted by Stephanie Crugnola that pits her against academics, actors and teachers to debate a Shakespeare-related ‘best of’ - with listeners getting the opportunity to vote on...
Looking in detail at the third Act of Henry VI and the appearance of King Henry VI as a child.
Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John Falstaff and investigates his role in Henry IV part 1. Lecture 11 in the Approaching Shakespeare series.
An exploration of act 1, scene 1 of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", focuses on the wedding of Theseus who is impatient to marry the fair Hyppolyta. Closer scrutiny lays bare a match made in the aftermath of...
Looking in detail at the second Act of Henry VI and if someone other than Shakespeare contributed to this part of the play.
Looking in detail at the fourth Act of Henry VI and the coronation in Paris; also discusses the recent stage production of King Lear starring Glenda Jackson.
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