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Julius Caesar: From stage to screen

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Julius Caesar: From stage to screen Copyrighted imageCredit: BBC / RSC
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 22 Jun 2012
Watch this exclusive video about the making of the BBC film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Julius Caesar 

Julius Caesar on stage and page

Julius Caesar on stage and page Copyrighted imageCredit: BBC / RSC
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 21 Jun 2012
The histories of people reading, performing and witnessing Julius Caesar are surprisingly diverse. In this article, The Open University's Edmund King explains more

Brave New World re-imagined

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 24 Jan 2012
80 years since the publication of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World, Geoff Andrews wonders how it might be re-imagined today in the context...

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Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

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Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Intermediate Level Duration 10 hours Updated 19 May 2013
This unit concentrates on Sam Selvon’s twentieth-century novel, The Lonely Londoners. It considers the depiction of migration in the text as well as Selvon’s treatment...

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

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Intermediate Level Duration 12 hours Updated 19 May 2013
This unit concentrates on Acts 1 and 2 of John Webster’s Renaissance tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi. It focuses on the representation of marriage for...

Approaching literature: Reading Great Expectations

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Intermediate Level Duration 15 hours Updated 19 May 2013
This unit considers some of the different ways of reading Great Expectations, based on the type of genre the book belongs to. This is one...