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32 results found for '"University of Oxford, Faculty of English"' in Organisations.
Two Gentlemen of Verona: The View from the Director (2012 Video)
- Series
- Staging Shakespeare
- Director
- Kate O’Connor
- Producer
- Sarah Leonard
Podcast. The director Kate O’Connor talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. She describes what makes the play great, and discusses...
Tempest: For You Am I This Patient Log Man (2012 Video)
- Series
- Staging Shakespeare
- Director
- Archie Cornish
- Producer
- Marcus Field
Podcast. The director Archie Cornish and actors talk about the log-scene in The Tempest and how they interpret and perform it. Includes scenes from rehearsals and performance.
Richard III (2012 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Podcast. Emma Smith speaks on the inevitability of the ending of Richard III: does the play endorse Richmond’s final victory?
Comedy of Errors, The (2012 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical exploits of Comedy of Errors, drawing out the play’s serious concerns with identity and selfhood.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (2012 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series shows some of its self-conscious artistry and contemporary popularity.
King Lear (2012 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives...
As You Like It (2012 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Asking ‘what happens in As You Like It’, this lecture considers the play’s dramatic structure and its ambiguous use of pastoral, drawing on performance history, genre theory, and eco-critical approaches.
Hamlet (2012 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play’s nostalgia, drawing on biographical criticism and the religious and political history of early modern England.
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2012 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
This lecture on A Midsummer Night’s Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to uncover a play less concerned with marriage and more with sexual desire.
Taming of the Shrew (2012 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the question of whether Katherine is tamed at the end of the play.