Emma smith bidamon biography of william shakespeare

Emma Smith

1 Key Critical Concepts: Authorship

In this recording, Emma Smith introduces the concept of authorship as part of our

Emma Smith 2 The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two

Emma Smith 3 Henry VI, Part 2

Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the

Emma Smith 4 The Merry Wives of Windsor

Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Emma Smith 5 All&#;s Well That Ends Well

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

Emma Smith 6 Cymbeline

Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of

Emma Smith 7 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 8 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 9 The Witch Of Edmonton

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

Emma smith bidamon biography of william shakespeare JSTOR A debate over the years: is the play itself racist, or does it explore racism? Roger D. Retrieved 21 December

Emma Smith 10 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: Thomas Middleton

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

Emma Smith 11 The Alchemist: Ben Jonson

Written in the context of plague in London, The Alchemist’s plot and language are deeply

Emma Smith 12 Dr Faustus: Christopher Marlowe

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

Emma Smith 13 Timon of Athens

Emma Smith finishes her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Timon of

Emma Smith 14 Love&#;s Labour&#;s Lost

Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour

Emma Smith 15 Julius Caesar

This lecture on Julius Caesar discusses structure, tone, and politics by focusing on the cameo

Emma Smith 16 Romeo and Juliet

This lecture on Romeo and Juliet tackles the issue of the spoiler-chorus, in an already-too

Emma Smith 17 Coriolanus

This lecture takes up a detail from Shakespeare’s late Roman tragedy Coriolanus to ask about the

Emma Smith 18 To Shakespeare and Beyond: a panel discussion.

Cultural Connections discussion panel Casandra Ash, Peter Kirwan, Jose Perez Diaz and Emma Smith

Cassandra Ash, Peter Kirwan, José Pérez Díez, Emma Smith 19 Why should we study Shakespeare?

Dr Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we

Emma Smith, Ilana Lassman 20 The Merchant of Venice

This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play&#;s personal relationships

Emma Smith 21 Taming of the Shrew

Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the

Emma Smith 22 A Midsummer Night&#;s Dream

This lecture on A Midsummer Night&#;s Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of

Emma Smith 23 Much Ado About Nothing

Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John

Emma Smith 24 Hamlet

The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play&#;

Emma Smith 25 As You Like It

Asking &#;what happens in As You Like It&#;, this lecture considers the play&#;s

Emma Smith 26 King Lear

Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King

Emma Smith 27 King John

At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the

Emma Smith 28 Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the

Emma Smith 29 Richard III

In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the

Emma Smith 30 The Comedy of Errors

Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical

Emma Smith 31 Henry IV part 1

Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John

Emma Smith 32 The Tempest

That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The

Emma Smith 33 Antony and Cleopatra

What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero?

The

Emma Smith 34 Richard II

Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II

Emma Smith 35 Twelfth Night

The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio

Emma Smith 36 Titus Andronicus

Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth

Emma Smith 37 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 38 Macbeth

In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes

Emma Smith 39 Measure for Measure

The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question

Emma Smith 40 Henry V

The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether

Emma Smith 41 The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost and regained

From the Alumni Weekend.

Emma Smith reveals how Oxford University mobilised Alumni support

Emma Smith 42 Othello

Othello - First in Emma Smith&#;s Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the

Emma Smith 43 The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

In dramatizing a woman&#;s sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy

Emma Smith 44 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 45 The Revenger&#;s Tragedy: Thomas Middleton

A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and

Emma Smith 46 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 47 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 48 The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd

Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes

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