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Shakespeare: A critical analysis

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Is Shakespeare still relevant today? How does his work influence pop culture today? Do the themes of his plays continue to resonate with modern audiences or as a result of his legacy has he become a caricature of himself? Stephen Regan, accompanied by experts from the world Shakespeare congress examine Shakespeare ‘s work from a critical perspective, putting his plays in historical and social context as well as making a critical analysis of the broader questions of performance and audience interaction throughout history.
Category: History & The Arts

Outside the book: Tragedy

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Discover how renaissance tragedies such as Hamlet and The Duchess of Malfi emit strong moral and political messages.
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Outside the book: Comedy

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Find out how making fun of society and social mishaps allowed writers like Shakespeare to produce great comedy. 
Category: History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

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Do you enjoy watching Shakespeare's plays and like the idea of finding out more about them? This free course, Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It, will guide you through some of the most important speeches and scenes from one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies.
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Speaking Shakespeare: How was Shakespeare pronounced when he was writing?

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How do we know what actors sounded like when they performed premieres of Shakespeare plays? The clues, as ever, are in the lines themselves...
Category: English Language

Outside the Book [DUPLICATE]

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What function does comedy serve? What do people in power learn by watching tragedies? In this collection of five animations comedienne Josie Long guides us into the fascinating world of Literary Theory. Along the way we’ll discover two very different types of poet (and lover): The Petrarchan and The Libertine, we’re given insight into the complexity behind the term author and learn the difference between a book and the idea of a book.

This collection was created in conjunction with The Open University course A334 English Literature from Shakespeare to Austen
Category: Literature

Shakespeare: For All Time?

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A current production of Julius Caesar is causing controversy in the USA for allegedly depicting Donald Trump's murder, but what does this tell us about the nature of Shakespeare's plays?
Category: Literature

Living Shakespeare: Alissar Caracalla on Lebanon and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Choreographer Alissar Caracalla reimagines A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the mountains of Lebanon.

Category: Literature

Living Shakespeare: Hong Ying on China and the sonnets

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Shakespeare's sonnets were once banned in China and are now popular with the gay community. Hong Ying, author of ‘Daughter of the River’ looks at Shakespeare’s sonnets as they relate to sexuality and love in China. 

Category: Literature

Living Shakespeare: Dame Evelyn Glennie on the UK and The Tempest

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The United Kingdom's Dame Evelyn Glennie talks us through her unique way of hearing and interpreting Shakespeare’s The Tempest. 

Category: Literature

Living Shakespeare: Kalki Koechlin on India's women and Ophelia

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Ophelia's situation in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' bears a lot of parallels with Indian women and their place in society. Bollywood actor, Kalki Koechlin, explores her tragic story. 

Category: Literature

Living Shakespeare: Dr John Kani on South Africa and Othello

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Shakespeare's 'Othello' still makes people uncomfortable because it tackles racism, so what was it like for John Kani who played the play's lead role at the peak of Apartheid in South Africa?

Category: Literature

From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old

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How have fart jokes survived the times? Even the great William Shakespeare, used a flatulence pun in his play The Comedy of Errors...
Category: Literature

How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’

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Evidence from a poem and sonnett suggest that William Shakespeare drew at least some of his inspiration from cannabis.
Category: Literature

A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime

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In this extract from Roundabout Papers, William Makepeace Thackeray describes a festive entertainment which takes liberties with history. Not that Thackeray is above taking a few liberties of his own...

Category: Literature

Collecting Shakespeare: Crowd funding and rediscovered plays

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A benefit gig, a rediscovered lost play and a beef with Alexander Pope: Lewis Theobald's 18th Century edition of Shakespeare plays could have fitted comfortable in the social media age.
Category: Literature

The legacy of Shakespeare

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Many believe William Shakespeare was the greatest playwright who ever lived. Find out more about the man, the work and the legacy.
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Fakespeare: Rewriting the bard

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Rewrite Shakespeare’s best bits for the 21st Century and reveal your inner wordsmith.

Category: Literature

English monsters

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Dr Tim Hammond takes a look at dogs and the poor on the English Renaissance stage, particularly in Shakespeare's history plays.
Category: Literature

Hamlet: "To be or not to be..."

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Alex Jennings performs one of the most famous soliloquies from Shakespeare; Act 3, scene I: To be, or not to be: that is the question.
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