| 21 |
King Lear |
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King… |
Emma Smith |
| 22 |
King John |
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the… |
Emma Smith |
| 23 |
Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the… |
Emma Smith |
| 24 |
Richard III |
In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the inevitability… |
Emma Smith |
| 25 |
The Comedy of Errors |
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical… |
Emma Smith |
| 26 |
History of English Pronunciation |
Do we really know what Chaucer's poetry sounded like? Professor Simon Horobin introduces evidence… |
Simon Horobin |
| 27 |
Henry IV part 1 |
Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John… |
Emma Smith |
| 28 |
The Tempest |
That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The Tempest… |
Emma Smith |
| 29 |
Antony and Cleopatra |
What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The… |
Emma Smith |
| 30 |
Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) |
Professor Charlotte Brewer introduces the methodology behind the creation of the OED and how… |
Charlotte Brewer |
