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English and Gender |
Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by… |
Deborah Cameron |
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Twelfth Night |
The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio -… |
Emma Smith |
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Titus Andronicus |
Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth Approaching… |
Emma Smith |
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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 |
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Macbeth |
In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes… |
Emma Smith |
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Measure for Measure |
The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question of… |
Emma Smith |
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The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster |
In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates… |
Emma Smith |
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The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker |
Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-turvy… |
Emma Smith |
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The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton |
A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-… |
Emma Smith |
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The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker |
Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context… |
Emma Smith |
