| 11 |
Much Ado About Nothing |
Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John,… |
Emma Smith |
| 12 |
Hamlet |
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's… |
Emma Smith |
| 13 |
As You Like It |
Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and… |
Emma Smith |
| 14 |
A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. |
Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog… |
Sally Bayley |
| 15 |
King Lear |
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King… |
Emma Smith |
| 16 |
King John |
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the… |
Emma Smith |
| 17 |
Richard III |
In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the inevitability… |
Emma Smith |
| 18 |
The Comedy of Errors |
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical… |
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 |