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Audio podcast hosted by Andrew Smith. In this episode Stephan Wolfert talks about DE-CRUIT, the organisation he runs that uses Shakespeare to help army and navy veterans cope with trauma. The episode also...
The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio - and uses his presence to open up questions of sexuality, desire and the nature of romantic comedy.
Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett looks at the publication of the First Folio and speaks to Professor Emma Rice, whose books include, Shakespeare’s First Folio.
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives...
Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series shows some of its self-conscious artistry and contemporary popularity.
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical exploits of Comedy of Errors, drawing out the play’s serious concerns with identity and selfhood.
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.
Two brief lectures by the joint winners of the 2020 Shakespeare’s Globe Book AwardL The first is by Emma Whipday (Newcastle University), who won for ‘Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies.' The second...
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at the ways history and legitimacy are complicated in this plotline.
Short. Adapted from the off-West End nominated play which featured at the Union Theatre, directed by Phil Wilmott. No further details known.
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