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Elizabethan Theatre

# Title Description Contributor
1 All's Well That Ends Well

Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well.

Emma Smith
2 The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher

Fletcher’s play is a riposte to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: in this lecture I discuss...

Emma Smith
3 Tis Pity She's a Whore: John Ford

This lecture discusses the play’s reboot of Romeo and Juliet and other Elizabethan plays, its...

Emma Smith
4 The Witch Of Edmonton

A collaborative play about witchcraft, bigamy - and a talking dog - what more could you want?...

Emma Smith
5 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: Thomas Middleton

This lecture discusses comedy, fertility, and all those illegitimate children in this play about...

Emma Smith
6 Dr Faustus: Christopher Marlowe

Emma Smith's lecture on this infernal play discusses Elizabethan religion, the revisions to the...

Emma Smith
7 Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre?

Professor Tiffany Stern of University College, Oxford, discusses her current research and...

Tiffany Stern, Ilana Lassman