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# Title Description Contributor
1 Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience A joint event hosted by the Theatre Studies and Queer Studies Networks. Sandra Mayer, author of… Sandra Mayer, Mary Luckhurst, Dominic Janes, Stefano Evangelista
2 1594: Shakespeare's most important year In the summer of 1594 William Shakespeare decided to invest around £50 to become a shareholder in a… Bart van Es
3 The Magic of Shakespeare This lecture will celebrate Shakespeare's immortality on the exact 400th anniversary of his burial… Jonathan Bate
4 Shakespeare and the Victorians Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare… Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
5 The Merchant of Venice This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are… Emma Smith
6 Taming of the Shrew Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the… Emma Smith
7 A Midsummer Night's Dream This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to… Emma Smith
8 Much Ado About Nothing Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John,… Emma Smith
9 Hamlet The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's… Emma Smith
10 As You Like It Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and… Emma Smith
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