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Venus and Adonis (2016 Video)
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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...
Everyday Death in Shakespeare’s England (2016 Video)
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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...
Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and Other Elegies (2016 Video)
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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,...
Magic of Shakespeare, The (Video)
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Video podcast. The lecture by Jonathan Bate celebrates Shakespeare’s immortality on the exact 400th anniversary of his burial. It begins with Theseus’ speech in A Midsummer Night’s Dream about the...