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# Title Description Contributor
21 Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin' A practical Masterclass looking at what clues Shakespeare puts into the verse for the actor.… Gregory Doran
22 The real Jane Austen: A life in small things Biographer Paula Byrne (Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the… Paula Byrne
23 Popular fiction in World War One An argument for a more nuanced assessment of the popular literature consumed by the wider public… Jane Potter
24 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
25 The Merchant of Venice This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are… Emma Smith
26 Taming of the Shrew Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the… Emma Smith
27 A Midsummer Night's Dream This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to… Emma Smith
28 Much Ado About Nothing Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John,… Emma Smith
29 Dickens' Railways Professor Stephen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on… Stephen Gill
30 Hamlet The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's… Emma Smith
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