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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Merchant of Venice |
This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships... |
Emma Smith |
| 2 | Taming of the Shrew |
Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the... |
Emma Smith |
| 3 | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of... |
Emma Smith |
| 4 | Much Ado About Nothing |
Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John... |
Emma Smith |
| 5 | Hamlet |
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play'... |
Emma Smith |
| 6 | As You Like It |
Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's... |
Emma Smith |
| 7 | King Lear |
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King... |
Emma Smith |
| 8 | King John |
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the... |
Emma Smith |
| 9 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the... |
Emma Smith |
| 10 | Richard III |
In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the... |
Emma Smith |
| 11 | The Comedy of Errors |
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical... |
Emma Smith |
| 12 | Henry IV part 1 |
Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John... |
Emma Smith |
| 13 | The Tempest |
That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The... |
Emma Smith |
| 14 | Antony and Cleopatra |
What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The... |
Emma Smith |
| 15 | Twelfth Night |
The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio... |
Emma Smith |
| 16 | Titus Andronicus |
Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth... |
Emma Smith |
| 17 | The Winter's Tale |
How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its... |
Emma Smith |
| 18 | Macbeth |
In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes... |
Emma Smith |
| 19 | Measure for Measure |
The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question... |
Emma Smith |
| # | Title | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salomé |
Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act / translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, with illustrations by... |
Oscar Wilde |
| 2 | A Woman of No Importance |
First performed 1893 |
Oscar Wilde |
| # | Resource Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Play in Fragments by Maria Edgeworth - A Surviving Manuscript |
The surviving manuscript of an unpublished play by Maria Edgeworth c.1811, found in MS Eng misc... |
Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster |