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Recording of a live online lecture by Alan Stanford in which he looks at how Shakespeare creates suspense in his plays. He focuses in particular on Macbeth, Richard III, Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Podcast. Thomas Jones talks to Charles Nicholl about the craze in the 1590s for plays representing real-life murder on the London stage, from the first known example, Arden of Faversham, to the genre’s...
This lecture takes up a detail from Shakespeare’s late Roman tragedy Coriolanus to ask about the representation of character, the use of sources and the genre of tragedy.
Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and guest Madelaine Wheeler discuss Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare’s less performed plays. They explore its complicated magpie plot, some of its themes such as the nature vs...
Asking ‘what happens in As You Like It’, this lecture considers the play’s dramatic structure and its ambiguous use of pastoral, drawing on performance history, genre theory, and eco-critical approaches.
Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli look at The Merry Wives of Windsor as an example of the then popular city comedy genre.
Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner (Linfield University) explores its designation as a comedy, its depiction of Jews and its use of genre.
Radio programme. Together with guests Professor George Steiner and Professor Catherine Belsey, presenter Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the genre of tragedy and examines whether we (still) have a...
A podcast lecture series focusing on a single play by Shakespeare, and employing a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching...
Second of a 5-part series of scholarly talks on Shakespeare’s history plays. Emrys Jones looks at the new dramatic genre of the Shakespearean secular history play within the theatrical fashion of its time.
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