| 1 |
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 |
| 2 |
The Magic of Shakespeare |
This lecture will celebrate Shakespeare's immortality on the exact 400th anniversary of his burial… |
Jonathan Bate |
| 3 |
Shakespeare and the Victorians |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare… |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
| 4 |
The Merchant of Venice |
This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are… |
Emma Smith |
| 5 |
Taming of the Shrew |
Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the… |
Emma Smith |
| 6 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to… |
Emma Smith |
| 7 |
Much Ado About Nothing |
Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John,… |
Emma Smith |
| 8 |
Hamlet |
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's… |
Emma Smith |
| 9 |
As You Like It |
Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and… |
Emma Smith |
| 10 |
King Lear |
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King… |
Emma Smith |
