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Approaching Shakespeare

Hamlet

The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's nostalgia, drawing on biographical criticism and the religious and political history of early modern England.
Approaching Shakespeare

As You Like It

Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and its ambiguous use of pastoral, drawing on performance history, genre theory, and eco-critical approaches.
Staging Shakespeare

The language of Shakespeare

Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student production of the Shakespeare play - Two Gentlemen of Verona. They discuss some of the challenges of the text and what they have done to overcome these.
Staging Shakespeare

Understanding Shakespeare

The actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it for his role in the student production of the Shakespeare play Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Staging Shakespeare

Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director

The director talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. She describes what makes the play great, and discusses issues related to editing and direction.
Staging Shakespeare

The Tempest: For you am I this patient log-man

The director and actors talk about the log-scene in The Tempest and how they interpret and perform it. Includes scenes from rehearsals and performance.
Staging Shakespeare

The Tempest: Our revels now are ended

The famous Shakespeare scene from The Tempest, performed by actors from an Oxford student drama society.
Staging Shakespeare

The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Conveying Shakespeare's meaning

The actor Dylan Townley talks about the language of Shakespeare. He describes how understanding and using the meter can help an actor or reader to bring out the poetry in a text. Includes a scene from The Tempest.
Staging Shakespeare

The Tempest: Prospero

Actor Dylan Townley talks with director Archie Cornish about the character Prospero. They describe how they have chosen to portray him in this Oxford student performance of The Tempest, and discuss on what they base their interpretation.
Staging Shakespeare

The Tempest: Direction and interpretation

Director Archie Cornish and actor Dylan Townley - Prospero - talk about adapting, directing and performing a student Shakespeare production of The Tempest.
Staging Shakespeare

Teaching Shakespeare in Schools

A teacher talks about how she teaches Shakespeare in school, using video clips and references from contemporary culture to get the students to understand, relate to, and engage with the text.
Staging Shakespeare

The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Bringing a scene to Life

The director Archie Cornish, and actor Dylan Townley, introduce the Revel speech in The Tempest. They also discuss the context in which it appears.
Staging Shakespeare

Shakespeare and the Stage

Professor Tiffany Stern gives a short talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in Elizabethan England.
Hume's Central Principles

8. Conclusion; Scepticism in the Treatise and the Enquiry

Eighth and final lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles.
Hume's Central Principles

7. Scepticism with Regard to Reason, the Soul and the Self

Seventh lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles.
Hume's Central Principles

6. Hume on the External World

Sixth lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles.
Hume's Central Principles

5: Hume on Causal Necessity

Fifth lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles.
Hume's Central Principles

4: Hume on Induction

Fourth lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles.
Hume's Central Principles

3: Hume's Logic: Relations, and Forms of Argument

Third lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles.
Hume's Central Principles

2. Overview, Theory of Ideas, and Faculty Psychology

Second lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles.

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