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Chaucer for Beginners

Chaucer 4 - The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Professor Marion Turner introduces one of the most famous and intricate tales from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales – "The Wife of Bath."
Fantasy Literature
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A Conversation with Katherine Langrish

Dr Caroline Batten chats with author Katherine Langrish about her book 'From Spare Oom to War Drobe'
Alumni Weekend

Medieval Romance and the Gift of Narrative

Dr Perkins gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend.
Keble College

Ariosto's Chivalric Romance as a Source of Italian Epic Theory

Professor Daniel Javitch (Emeritus Prof. Comparative Literature, New York University) gives a talk for the Keble College ASC Creativity lecture series on 28th May 2013.
Valentine's Day at Oxford

The Romance of the Middle Ages

Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially about how gifts and tokens were exchanged as signs of fidelity, specifically in Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain, and King Horn.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Shakespeare and Medieval Romance

Professor Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge, speaks about the continuities between the Romance of the middle ages and Shakespeare's plays. She looks at textual features from his plays (including King Lear) which may indicate his influences.
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Who did Plato (not) love?

Platonic love? Plato's main text on love, the Symposium, takes a broad look at what love means, offering a serious yet humorous, poignant and flippant, literary philosophical discussion of the topic, with some famous but also surprising outcomes.
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

If marriage is a trade, then what price romance?

Theatre was a forum for early twentieth-century feminists to challenge romantic ideals of marriage, arguing against society blocking women's access to alternative professions. Did one playwright solve the problem of selling seats without selling out?
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Not only the lonely: the social implications of the rise of online dating

Dr Hogan explores values towards online dating, relating them to whether one's friends have dated online and whether social network software or online personals are responsible for the continued rise in popularity of online dating.
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters

In Swift's letters to his adored Stella, we see an elaborate combination of language and code to tease his reader but still communicate intimacy. The denial of full disclosure and the refusal to reveal all is part of the game of seduction.
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

An advert for the lecture series "Love and other things"

This advert introduces a series of 4 talks on the subject of love and romance. The 10 minute talks took place at Oxford University on Valentine's day 2011.

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