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51 results found for '"University of Oxford Podcasts"' in Organisations.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tales of the Bodleian’s First Folio (2016 Video)
- Series
- Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
Video podcast. Pip Wilcox, Curator of Digital Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the 2016 DHOXSS on Shakespeare’s First Folio, held by the Bodleian.
Extracts from Shakespeare (2016 Video)
- Series
- 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...
Shakespeare, Mind and World (2016 Video)
- Series
- 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...
Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and Other Elegies (2016 Video)
- Series
- The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)
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,...
Everyday Death in Shakespeare’s England (2016 Video)
- Series
- The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)
Video podcast. This podcast by Steven Gunn talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare’s day. Coroners’ inquest reports into accidental deaths tell us about the hazards...