Questioning Genre
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This section brings together resources from the across the Great Writers Inspire site to illustrate how these can be used as a starting point for exploration of or classroom discussion about genre.
The 'Questions of Genre' essay introduces a series of topics and questions and gives examples of resources to explore. It is aimed at teachers, students and anyone who is interested in literature who wants to put text into context and be inspired by Great Writers.
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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Romance of the Middle Ages | Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially… | Nicholas Perkins |
| 2 | King Lear | Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King… | Emma Smith |
| 3 | Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing | Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing | Abigail Williams |
| 4 | The Comedy of Errors | Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical… | Emma Smith |
| 5 | George Eliot 2. Genre and Justice | The second lecture in the series on George Eliot considers how narrative justice operates in… | Catherine Brown |
| 6 | Antony and Cleopatra | What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The… | Emma Smith |
| 7 | Richard II | Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II:… | Emma Smith |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Measure for Measure | The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question of… | Emma Smith |
| 10 | Is Tragedy still Alive? | Discussion on whether tragedy still exists in modern culture, whether in films, modern theatre or… | Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings |