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Pivot Points: Moments That Shape Us
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2 - Tom Brennan

Playwright and producer lands at Wolfson as Creative Arts Fellow for his first foray into the world of Oxford
The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations

WillPlay: Chat, Play, Learn Shakespeare

This podcast explores WillPlay, an AI-powered reimagining of Shakespeare's plays for school students.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play

Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

OYUB Radio Play

OYUB is a Russian documentary play about the life of Oyub Titiev, a human rights activist in the Republic of Chechnya, Russia.
Approaching Shakespeare
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher

A riposte to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Tis Pity She's a Whore: John Ford

Reboot of Romeo and Juliet and other Elizabethan plays
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Witch Of Edmonton

Witchcraft and bigamy.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: Thomas Middleton

This lecture discusses comedy, fertility, and all those illegitimate children in this play about sex, economics and meat.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Alchemist: Ben Jonson

Written in the context of plague in London, The Alchemist’s plot and language are deeply concerned with speed and speculation.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Dr Faustus: Christopher Marlowe

My lecture on this infernal play discusses Elizabethan religion, the revisions to the play, and whether we should think about James Bond in its final minutes.
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.
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.
Approaching Shakespeare

King Lear

Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives pleasure.
Approaching Shakespeare

King John

At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at the ways history and legitimacy are complicated in this plotline.
Approaching Shakespeare

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series shows some of its self-conscious artistry and contemporary popularity.

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