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Video in which Dr Katrina Marchant looks at the life and career of William Kempe, a celebrated comic actor who originated several of Shakespeare’s characters on the stage.
That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The Tempest: this tenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture asks whether that is a useful reading of the play.
Video in which Dr Katrina Marchant looks at the life and career of Richard Burbage, the actor who originated many of Shakespeare’s greatest roles on the stage including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and...
Video in which Dr Katrina Marchant explores some of the religious dimensions to Shakespeare’s play and whether it can be considered a crypto-catholic text.
Podcast hosted by Greg LaBlanc. When we read fiction, our brains are able to suspend our awareness of the fiction so we can fully immerse ourselves in the story we’re reading. When this happens, we are...
Podcast. Leonard Barkan (Princeton University) talks to Barbara Bogaev about his new book, Reading Shakespeare Reading Me, a personal look at how ten of Shakespeare’s plays connect with his own life and...
Video recording of a live seminar held online over Zoom starting with a half hour presentation by Páraic Finnerty (University of Portsmouth) on American poet Emily Dickinson’s engagement with...
Coming-of-age feature film concerning a young boy’s relationship with a girl vampire. Includes a clip from Zeffirelli’s ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) being shown to a class of 12-year olds and a sequence in...
The first in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing platform, it...
Recording of the book launch event for Dr. Ruben Espinosa’s new book, Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism. A reading from the book, an analysis of Macbeth, is followed by a conversation with Dr. Kathryn...
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