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11 As You Like It Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and… Emma Smith
12 King Lear Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King… Emma Smith
13 King John At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the… Emma Smith
14 Pericles, Prince of Tyre Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the… Emma Smith
15 Richard III In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the inevitability… Emma Smith
16 The Comedy of Errors Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical… Emma Smith
17 History of English Pronunciation Do we really know what Chaucer's poetry sounded like? Professor Simon Horobin introduces evidence… Simon Horobin
18 Henry IV part 1 Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John… Emma Smith
19 The Tempest That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The Tempest… Emma Smith
20 Antony and Cleopatra What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The… Emma Smith
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