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#	Title	Description	Contributor
1	Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience	A joint event hosted by the Theatre Studies and Queer Studies Networks. Sandra Mayer, author of...	Sandra Mayer, Mary Luckhurst, Dominic Janes, Stefano Evangelista

#	Title	Description	Contributor
1	1594: Shakespeare's most important year	In the summer of 1594 William Shakespeare decided to invest around £50 to become a shareholder...	Bart van Es
2	The Magic of Shakespeare	This lecture will celebrate Shakespeare's immortality on the exact 400th anniversary of his...	Jonathan Bate
3	Shakespeare and the Victorians	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare...	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
4	The Merchant of Venice	This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships...	Emma Smith
5	Taming of the Shrew	Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the...	Emma Smith
6	A Midsummer Night's Dream	This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of...	Emma Smith
7	Much Ado About Nothing	Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John...	Emma Smith
8	Hamlet	The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play'...	Emma Smith
9	As You Like It	Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's...	Emma Smith
10	King Lear	Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King...	Emma Smith
11	King John	At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the...	Emma Smith
12	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the...	Emma Smith
13	Richard III	In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the...	Emma Smith
14	The Comedy of Errors	Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical...	Emma Smith
15	Henry IV part 1	Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John...	Emma Smith
16	The Tempest	That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The...	Emma Smith
17	Antony and Cleopatra	What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The...	Emma Smith
18	Twelfth Night	The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio...	Emma Smith
19	Titus Andronicus	Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth...	Emma Smith
20	The Winter's Tale	How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its...	Emma Smith
21	Macbeth	In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes...	Emma Smith
22	Measure for Measure	The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question...	Emma Smith
23	Henry V	The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether...	Emma Smith
24	Othello	Othello - First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the...	Emma Smith
25	Who Translates and for Whom?	Fourth part of the What is Translation Podcast series. In this part, the question of who is best...	Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick
26	Can Poetry be Translated?	Third part of the What is Translation podcast series. In this part, the question of whether...	Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick
27	Is there ever a Faithful Translation?	Second part of the What is Translation podcast series. In this part, the question of whether...	Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick
28	Does Tragedy Teach?	Third dialogue on the nature of tragedy where they talk about whether tragic theatre teaches...	Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
29	What does Tragedy do for People?	A discussion of what the use of tragedy is, and whether the emotional experience of tragic...	Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
30	Defining Tragedy	First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what '...	Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
31	The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster	In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy...	Emma Smith
32	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-...	Emma Smith
33	The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton	A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and...	Emma Smith
34	The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker	Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a...	Emma Smith
35	Arden of Faversham: Anon	A true crime story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife and her lover, this play is...	Emma Smith
36	The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd	Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes...	Emma Smith

#	Essay Title	Description	Contributor
1	Aphra Behn and Poetic Culture	This essay is the last of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr....	Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
2	Aphra Behn and Political Culture	This essay is the third of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr....	Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
3	Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre	This essay is the second of four distilled from a lecture series on Aphra Behn given by Dr....	Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor

#	Title	Description	Author
1	Arden of Faversham: Anon (eBook)	Arden of Feversham / Unknown. This is the epub edition of the play.	Anonymous

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