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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...
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...
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,...
Timon of Athens (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
A podcast lecture series focusing on a single play by Shakespeare. Emma Smith concludes the series with a lecture on Timon of Athens.
Shakespeare’s Animals (2015 Video)
- Series
- St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Teddy Talks
Video podcast. Why animals are everywhere in Shakespeare’s language. Only two actual animals definitely appear in Shakespeare’s plays: Crabbe in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and a hungry bear in The...
Julius Caesar (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
A podcast lecture series focusing on a single play by Shakespeare, and employing a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching...
Coriolanus (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
This lecture takes up a detail from Shakespeare’s late Roman tragedy Coriolanus to ask about the representation of character, the use of sources and the genre of tragedy.
Acting Masterclass: Lend Me Your Ears (2013 Video)
- Series
- Staging Shakespeare
Video podcast. A practical Masterclass with Gregory Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company on how Shakespeare spins rhetoric for the actor, with Sam Leith, journalist and writer, and author of ‘You...
Acting Masterclass: Pyramus, You Begin (2013 Video)
- Series
- Staging Shakespeare
Video podcast. A practical Masterclass with Gregory Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company looking at what clues Shakespeare puts into the verse for the actor. Students from Oxford University Drama Society...
Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Language of Shakespeare (2012 Video)
- Series
- Staging Shakespeare
Podcast. Actors and the director Kate O’Connor talk about how they have approached and worked with their student production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. They discuss some of the challenges of the text and...