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Short. A suicidal poet reads a letter to his deceased lover. Can he come to terms with his own inadequacies and learn to forgive himself?
The emeritus professor of English Literature from La Trobe University, Paul Salzman gives an overview of he early publications of Shakespeare’s work. He describes how the plays were published individually...
Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli examine Barnabe Rich’s Apollonius and Silla and how it acted as a source text for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Recording of a live illustrated lecture by Anna Beer, which explores what can be divined about Shakespeare the man from his sonnets. Followed by a Q&A.
Recording of the inaugural lecture by Professor Tiffany Stern at the University of Birmingham on the mutual and complimentary relationship between plays and broadside ballads in Shakespeare’s theatre....
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.
Recording of a live interactive video session presented by Carol Ann Lloyd that includes polls and chats. She looks at the contemporary relevance of Shakespeare’s plays, asks users to identify plots and...
Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli look at the oral storytelling tradition and how folk tales may have influenced Shakespeare when he wrote Cymbeline, especially Snow White.
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...
Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to writer-producer Bryan Cogman about TV fantasy shows, who brought his knowledge of Shakespeare to such projects as Games of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of...