| 1 |
Why should we study Johnson? |
Professor Ros Ballaster of Mansfield College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes… |
Sarah Wilkin, Ros Ballaster |
| 2 |
Why should we study Postcolonial Literature? |
Professor Elleke Boehmer of Wolfson College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes… |
Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Wilkin |
| 3 |
Why should we study Chaucer? |
Dr Laura Ashe of Worcester College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we… |
Ilana Lassman, Laura Ashe |
| 4 |
Why should we study Shakespeare? |
Dr Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we… |
Ilana Lassman, Emma Smith |
| 5 |
Why should we study Dickens? |
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and… |
Ilana Lassman, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
| 6 |
"Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture |
Historian Stella Tillyard delivers the fourth Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing and Portraiture. The… |
Stella Tillyard |
| 7 |
W.B. Yeats and the Ghost Club |
Dr Tara Stubbs uses exciting new research findings to discuss the close links between Yeats's… |
Tara Stubbs |
| 8 |
The Merchant of Venice |
This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are… |
Emma Smith |
| 9 |
Taming of the Shrew |
Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the… |
Emma Smith |
| 10 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to… |
Emma Smith |
