Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and Other Elegies
- Synopsis
- Video podcast. Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. Ben Jonson wrote in 1623 that Shakespeare ‘art a Moniment, without a tombe/ And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live’. Centuries later Jorge Luis Borges observed that ‘when writers die, they become books’, adding, ‘which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation’. This lecture considers Shakespeare’s First Folio as a literary memorial to Shakespeare, alongside other elegies, epitaphs and responses to the playwright’s death.
- Series
- The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 2 Jun 2016
- Duration
- 41 mins
Credits
- Contributor
- Emma Smith
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Folio editions; memorials
Notes
- Notes
- Accessed 2/2017.
Online Availability
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
University of Oxford Podcasts
- Web
- http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ External site opens in new window
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and Other Elegies". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av77587 (Accessed 20 Sep 2024)