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Practice Makes… the Oxford Reimagining Performance Podcast

Practice Makes… Eighteenth-Century Theatre Today

David Taylor, specialist in eighteenth-century theatre, and Colin Blumenau, former Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, talk about performing eighteenth-century drama on the modern stage.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

What is a Literary Period?

Clare Bucknell considers how we define a literary period.
Voltaire Foundation

The Lure of Paris: The Republic of Letters and Eighteenth-Century Speed-Dating

Final talk of the Besterman Enlightenment Workshop 2017, Laurence Brockliss explains the popularity of Paris as a place to visit in the 18th century and explores the opportunities for and obstacles to making contacts in the European Republic of Letters.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

The poetry of war

Explores the aesthetics and impact of war poetry in the early eighteenth century, focussing on Joseph Addison's poem, The Campaign.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

The Ladle: a comic poem

Matthew Prior's The Ladle was one of the most popular poems of the eighteenth century. This podcast explores its appeal.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Music in miscellanies

Much popular music of the eighteenth century is found in poetic miscellanies. But how was it performed?
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Pastoral Poetry

Introduces the poetry of rural life, and its debt to classical sources.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

The life of epigrams

This podcasts introduces the popular eighteenth century epigram.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Petticoats and fashion

An introduction to the world of fashion and the politics of the petticoat, seen through the poetry of the time.
Interviews on Great Writers

Oriental Tales and Their Influence

Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century.

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