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54 results found for '"University of Oxford"' in Organisations.
Willplay: Chat, Play, Learn Shakespeare (2021 Audio)
Audio podcast. Abigail Williams, Felicity Brown and Rachael Hodge discuss the development of WillPlay, an AI-powered reimagining of Shakespeare’s plays for school students, allowing them to interact online...
'No Man Ever Loved’: Looking for Shakespeare in His Sonnets (2021 Video)
Recording of a live illustrated lecture by Anna Beer, which explores what can be divined about Shakespeare the man from his sonnets. Followed by a Q&A.
Shakespeare and the Plague (2020 Multimedia)
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- 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...
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (2017 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
The 2017 series of Shakespeare lectures concludes with an exploration of one of the Bard’s early comedies.
Henry IV, Part 2 (2017 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Following the loss of England’s French territories, Henry VI is plagued by power struggles, insubordination and threats to his monarchy. Part of a trilogy of plays, Emma Smiths asks whether it’s still...
Merry Wives of Windsor (2017 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
A significant character in Shakespeare’s history plays, Falstaff takes centre stage - getting up to mischief and chasing potential loves in the "Merry Wives of Windsor". In this lecture, Professor Emma...
All’s Well That Ends Well (2017 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Married to Bertram, who chooses to go to war rather than recognise her as his wife; Helena shows equal determination when he challenges her to become pregnant by him. Bertram is undone when Helena triumphs...
Cymbeline (2017 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
King Cymberline goes to war in protest over Roman demands for England to pay a tribute. Having won the war and captured his enemies, Cymberliine decides to pay the tribute despite his victory. In this...
Venus and Adonis (2016 Video)
- Series
- The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)
Video podcast. Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on Venus and Adonis. In 1592-93, with London playhouses closed because of plague, Shakespeare wrote...
Hunter Heartbeat Method, The (2016 Video)
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- Shakespeare and the Brain
Video podcast. A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and...