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9 results found for '"plague"' in Keywords.
Plague Life (2023 Audio)
- Series
- Everyday Shakespeare
- Producer
- Jill Ruby
Podcast in which hosts Professor Michelle Ephraim (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts) and Professor Caroline Bicks (University of Maine) discuss everyday issues through a Shakespearean lens. In...
Where the Infectious Pestilence Did Reign: Plague in Shakespeare’s London (2021 Video)
Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London) on how successive plagues in Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, and the memory of plagues, affected Londoners,...
Shakespeare’s Hamlet (2020 Video)
Audiovisual presentation by actor and educator Mark Cabus - made as preparation for a later class - in which he discusses the ways in which Hamlet is a play that can be seen as having special relevance in...
Introduction to Venus and Adonis (2020 Video)
- Series
- The Shakespeare 2020 Project
Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project Adam G. Hooks (University of Iowa) discusses the work that made Shakespeare famous and, in the context of the Covid-19 crisis, its references to the plague.
Introduction to Lucrece (2020 Video)
- Series
- The Shakespeare 2020 Project
Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. Robin Hizme (Queens College, CUNY) discusses Shakespeare’s narrative poem, The Rape of Lucrece. Hizme explores the work in terms of volition, guilt and...
Shakespeare and the Plague (2020 Multimedia)
- Series
- Oxford at Home
Recording of an online lecture by Professor Emma Smith in which she discusses what Shakespeare did during the plague (did he write King Lear at that time, as many suggest?) and what this might teach us about...
Long View of Theatre Closures, The (2020 Radio)
- Series
- The Long View
- Producer
- Tom Alban
Jonathan Freedland and Professor Emma Smith discuss the closure of theatres in Shakespeare’s time during an outbreak of the plague in 1603.
Shakespeare’s Restless World: Plague and the Playhouse (2012 Radio)
- Series
- Shakespeare’s Restless World
- Producer
- Paul Kobrak
Seventeenth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean...
Shakespeare & The Plague (Film)
- Director
- Philippa Kelly
- Producer
- Joseph Di Prisco
Short educational film. Introduced by Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), this mashup is performed by three actors who explore how Shakespeare reflected the plague in his work, focusing on Romeo and...