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# Title Description Contributor
11 King John At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the… Emma Smith
12 Pericles, Prince of Tyre Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the… Emma Smith
13 Richard III In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the inevitability… Emma Smith
14 The Comedy of Errors Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical… Emma Smith
15 Henry IV part 1 Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John… Emma Smith
16 The Tempest That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The Tempest… Emma Smith
17 Antony and Cleopatra What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The… Emma Smith
18 Twelfth Night The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio -… Emma Smith
19 Titus Andronicus Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth Approaching… Emma Smith
20 The Winter's Tale How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its… Emma Smith
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