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Professor A. R. Humphreys and Roger Warren, University of Leicester, discuss the play.
Professor Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Dr Terence Hawkes, University College Cardiff, discuss the play.
Discusses the ball scene, the balcony scene, the friar’s discourse on ‘grace and rude will’, the quarrel scene, the arguement between the Capulets and their daughter, Juliet’s feigned death, and the...
Tape-filmstrip. Considers the wooing of Lady Anne, Clarence’s dream, the fall of Hastings, Richard’s appearance before the citizens, the tableau of lamentation, the second wooing scene, and the...
Discusses the significance of the fairy quarrel, the lovers’ wrangling, and Bottom’s enchantment. Among the scenes receiving detailed comment are the dispute between Oberon and Titania concerning the...
Deals with the literary and political context of the play. Focuses on key scenes which develop the ideas of kingship and honour. Considers the quarrel between Mowbray and Bolingbroke, Gaunt’s dying speech,...
Stanley Wells, editor of the ‘Oxford Shakespeare’, and John Wilders, Worcester College Oxford, discuss the difficulties of the play. Sice 2 comprises readings by actors Gemma Jones, Ian Taylor and Gary...
Explores the question of dramatic irony in relation to the scene in which Duncan enters Macbeth’s castle. Analyses specific episodes including the argument between Macbeth and his wife concerning the...
Nigel Alexander, University of Nottingham, and Nicholas Brooke, University of East Anglia, discuss the complexities of what is often considered as a straightforward ‘romantic’ tragedy. This play...
W. Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. They argue that Richard’s character and actions test the Elizabethan notions of the...
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