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  1. Cymbeline (Audio)

    Subject
    Shakespeare

    King Cymberline goes to war in protest over Roman demands for England to pay a tribute. Having won the war and captured his enemies, Cymberliine decides to pay the tribute despite his victory. In this...

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  2. Anthony and Cleopatra (Audio)

    Subject
    Shakespeare

    A detailed examination of the nature of this Shakespearean tragedy given its rare feature of having two central characters.

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  3. Anthony and Cleopatra (Audio)

    Subject
    Shakespeare

    The 2017 series of Shakespeare lectures concludes with an exploration of one of the Bard’s early comedies.

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  4. Coriolanus (Audio)

    Subject
    Drama

    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.

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  5. Titus Andronicus (Audio)

    Subject
    Drama

    Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on Titus Andronicus deals with violence, rhetoric, and the nature of dramatic...

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  6. Twelfth Night (Audio)

    Subject
    Drama

    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.

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  7. Tempest, The (Audio)

    Subject
    Drama

    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.

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  8. Henry IV, Part 1 (Audio)

    Subject
    Shakespeare

    Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John Falstaff and investigates his role in Henry IV part 1. Lecture 11 in the Approaching Shakespeare series.

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  9. Comedy of Errors, The (Audio)

    Subject
    Drama

    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.

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  10. Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Audio)

    Subject
    Drama

    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.

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