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Writers in Dialogue

Peter D McDonald in conversation with Derek Attridge

Peter D. McDonald and Derek Attridge reflect on their different approaches to the questions of literature and public value, and on the bearing this has for teaching and research today.
Writers in Dialogue

Peter D McDonald in conversation with Antjie Krog

Peter D. McDonald talks to Antjie Krog about her relationship to Afrikaans, English and African languages, about the promise and perils of translation, and about the challenges of and for writing in a multilingual democracy.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

The Domain of the Poem: Lyric, Sign, Meaning and Rhythm in Contemporary Ars Poetica (1)

Don Paterson, acclaimed poet, gives a lecture for Humanitas lecture series on Comparative European Literature.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day 2010

Judith Priestman, curator of literary manuscripts at the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 Tolkien exhibition, at which a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork for The Hobbit, was on display to the public.
Alumni Weekend

The Spanish Golden Age

A session chaired by Dr Frances Lannon that examines this period of flourishing arts and literature in Spain, which coincided with the political rise and subsequent decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Roy Strong talks to Brian Sewell: Self-portrait as a Young Man

Art critic Brian Sewell talks to Sir Roy Strong as part of the Times Literary Festival 2013.
Exeter College

Grimm Tales Lecture by Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman delivers a lecture on Grimm at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, as part of the 700th anniversary celebrations for Exeter College.
Wolfson College Podcasts

The real Jane Austen: A life in small things

Biographer Paula Byrne (Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead) delivers the second Weinrebe lecture on Life-Writing and Portraiture.
Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2012

W.B. Yeats and the Ghost Club

Dr Tara Stubbs uses exciting new research findings to discuss the close links between Yeats's attendances at the Ghost Club during the 1910s-1920s, his (sometimes amusing) spiritualist experiments, and his poetic works.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

W.B. Yeats and the Ghost Club

Dr Tara Stubbs uses exciting new research findings to discuss the close links between Yeats's attendances at the Ghost Club during the 1910s-1920s, his (sometimes amusing) spiritualist experiments, and his poetic works.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Image Matching on Printed Images in Bodleian Collections

Giles Bergel and Andrew Zisserman from the Broadside Ballad Connections project demonstrate new image matching software that allows researchers to track images across early forms of printed literature. Visit http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.
Alumni Weekend

Shakespeare's Fools

Professor of English, Katherine Duncan-Jones, discusses the real life characters and contemporaries of Shakespeare that inspired, shaped, and on occasion performed the various roles of the 'fool' in much of his work.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Godwin and his historical context

A discussion of the historical period in which William Godwin was writing and the social and political pressures that he was working under at the time.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Godwin and his friends

A discussion about the social aspects of the life of the writer William Godwin- how he interacted with his friends and how he was seen by his peers.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Introduction to William Godwin

The first part in this series gives a biography of the writer William Godwin, exploring his background and the key points from his life.
Approaching Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are shaped by models of financial transaction, using the casket scenes as a central example.
Approaching Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew

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.
Approaching Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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.
Approaching Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing

Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John, drawing on gender and performance criticism to think about male bonding, the genre of comedy, and the impulses of modern performance.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Dickens' Railways

Professor Stphen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on Charles Dickens' literature.

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