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Tolkien at Oxford

J R R Tolkien 'Beyond the Shoreless Sea'

These lectures cover an introduction to J R R Tolkien's career, show how medieval literature influenced his fiction, and consider the wider scheme Tolkien worked on linking his mythology to historical and other mythical events.
Tolkien at Oxford

J R R Tolkien: Medievalist and Mythmaker

These lectures cover an introduction to J R R Tolkien's career, show how medieval literature influenced his fiction, and consider the wider scheme Tolkien worked on linking his mythology to historical and other mythical events.
Approaching Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale

How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its conclusion? That's the topic for this fifth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on The Winter's Tale.
Approaching Shakespeare

Macbeth

In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes happen the things that happen in Macbeth?
Approaching Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question of this uncomic comedy's genre.
Approaching Shakespeare

Henry V

The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether his presentation in the play is entirely positive.
Alumni Weekend

The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained

From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Emma Smith reveals how Oxford University mobilised Alumni support to bring Shakespeare's First Folio back to the Bodleian library over 200 years after it was lost.
Approaching Shakespeare

Othello

First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the central question of race and its significance in the play.
UNIQ Summer Schools

Dr. Emma Smith, Fellow in English, Hertford College

Dr. Emma Smith on the UNIQ Summer School programme at the University of Oxford.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates perennial questions about female autonomy and class distinction.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker

Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-turvy genders has fun with some very modern ideas about sexuality, identity and whether we are what we wear.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton

A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-interest, this play is both fascinated and repelled by its own depravity.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker

Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context of shortages, political malaise and general pessimism, but real life in the shape of war, class antagonism and civic tensions, always threatens to intrude.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Arden of Faversham: Anon

A true crime story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife and her lover, this play is concerned with the politics of the household, with gender roles within marriage, and presents a black comedy of botched murder attempts rather like The Ladykillers.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd

Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes revenge. It speaks, like Hollywood Westerns, to questions about private revenge versus public justice, and to the vexed religious questions of its age.
English Tutorials at Mansfield College

First year English Tutorial: Old English Riddles

A tutorial given by Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College, Oxford University, to some first year degree students about Old English Riddles.
Medieval English

Old English in Context Lecture 4 - Manuscripts

Fourth and final lecture by Dr S D Lee, University of Oxford, on Old English in Context. 7/2/08.
Medieval English

Old English in Context Lecture 3 - Religion and Magic

Lecture 3 in a series on placing Old English in Context, Religion and magic. Delivered by Dr S D Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford - 31/1/08.
Medieval English

Old English in Context Lecture 2 - Society

Lecture delivered by Dr Stuart D Lee, 24/1/08, English Faculty, University of Oxford on Anglo-Saxon society in relation to the literature.
Medieval English

Old English in Context Lecture 1 - Historical texts

Lecture by Dr S. D. Lee, Faculty of English, Oxford University - placing Old English literature in its historical and social context.

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