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Love's Labour's Lost
Feb 12, 2024
48m 06s
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Dec 15, 2017
44m 47s
Henry VI, Part 2
Nov 9, 2017
47m 48s
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Oct 25, 2017
48m 29s
All's Well That Ends Well
Oct 25, 2017
48m 19s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/12/24 | Love's Labour's Lost | Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost. | 48m 06s | ||||||
| 12/15/17 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona. | 44m 47s | ||||||
| 11/9/17 | Henry VI, Part 2 | Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2. | 47m 48s | ||||||
| 10/25/17 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. | 48m 29s | ||||||
| 10/25/17 | All's Well That Ends Well | Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well. | 48m 19s | ||||||
| 10/25/17 | Cymbeline | Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline. | 50m 28s | ||||||
| 6/23/15 | Timon of Athens | Emma Smith finishes her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Timon of Athens. | 54m 49s | ||||||
| 5/18/15 | Julius Caesar | This lecture on Julius Caesar discusses structure, tone, and politics by focusing on the cameo scene with Cinna the Poet. | 49m 34s | ||||||
| 5/5/15 | Romeo and Juliet | This lecture on Romeo and Juliet tackles the issue of the spoiler-chorus, in an already-too-familiar play. This podcast is suitable for school and college students. | 44m 15s | ||||||
| 5/5/15 | Coriolanus | This lecture takes up a detail from Shakespeare’s late Roman tragedy Coriolanus to ask about the representation of character, the use of sources and the genre of tragedy. This podcast is suitable for school and college students. | 52m 32s | ||||||
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| 11/20/12 | 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. | 43m 34s | ||||||
| 11/9/12 | 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. | 43m 57s | ||||||
| 11/5/12 | 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. | 40m 37s | ||||||
| 10/30/12 | 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. | 41m 58s | ||||||
| 10/23/12 | 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. | 46m 08s | ||||||
| 10/23/12 | 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. | 49m 06s | ||||||
| 2/22/12 | 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. | 47m 25s | ||||||
| 2/10/12 | 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. | 45m 11s | ||||||
| 2/1/12 | 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. This podcast has been re-recorded due to technical problems with the original recording. There is no accompanying eBook for this lecture as Pericles is not included in the First Folio. | 40m 42s | ||||||
| 1/25/12 | Richard III | In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the inevitability of the ending of Richard III: does the play endorse Richmond's final victory? | 45m 09s | ||||||
| 1/23/12 | The Comedy of Errors | Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical exploits of Comedy of Errors, drawing out the play's serious concerns with identity and selfhood. | 46m 50s | ||||||
| 11/16/11 | Henry IV part 1 | Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John Falstaff and investigates his role in Henry IV part 1. Lecture 11 in the Approaching Shakespeare series. | 50m 35s | ||||||
| 11/14/11 | The Tempest | That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The Tempest: this tenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture asks whether that is a useful reading of the play. | 48m 58s | ||||||
| 11/10/11 | Antony and Cleopatra | What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The ninth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series tries to find out. | 46m 50s | ||||||
| 11/1/11 | Richard II | Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II: does the play suggest Henry Bolingbroke's overthrow of the king was justified? | 45m 16s | ||||||
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