#greatwriters

#	Title	Description	Contributor
1	What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls?	Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the...	Sandie Byrne
2	13.Bodleian Ballads Online: engagement for performance, teaching and research.	Cultural Connections talk by Giles Bergel. Part of the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School...	Giles Bergel
3	16.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
4	06.Writing for New Audiences.	Cultural Connections workshop with novelist, screenwriter and Head of Creative Writing at Brunel...	Max Kinnings
5	Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears"	A second Masterclass on how Shakespeare spins rhetoric for the actor, with Sam Leith, journalist...	Gregory Doran, Sam Leith
6	Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin'	A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company looking at what clues...	Gregory Doran
7	The Sandwich that Sabotaged Civilisation	Myths and Mistakes. How a well known photograph and an infamous lunch break have shaped our...	Dr Paul Miller
8	Popular fiction in World War One	An argument for a more nuanced assessment of the popular literature consumed by the wider public...	Jane Potter
9	Wartime Art and Grief	German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War.	Claudia Siebrecht
10	Shedding light on the dark ages	The Dark Ages are traditionally seen as nasty, brutish and short - a cultural and intellectual...	Janina Ramirez
11	Conflict Culture	How much do we really know about the experience of the average individual soldier?	Matthew Leonard
12	Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours?	The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914.	Catriona Pennell
13	The language of Shakespeare	Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student...	Kate O'Connor
14	Understanding Shakespeare	The actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it...	Nick Lyons
15	Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director	The director talks about how she adapted the script and directed the student Shakespeare...	Kate O'Connor
16	The Tempest: For you am I this patient log-man	The director and actors talk about the log-scene in The Tempest and how they interpret and...	Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley
17	The Tempest: Our revels now are ended	The famous Shakespeare scene from The Tempest, performed by actors from an Oxford student drama...	Dylan Townley
18	The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Conveying Shakespeare's meaning	The actor Dylan Townley talks about the language of Shakespeare. He describes how understanding...	Dylan Townley
19	The Tempest: Prospero	Actor Dylan Townley talks with director Archie Cornish about the character Prospero. They...	Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley
20	The Tempest: Direction and interpretation	Director Archie Cornish and actor Dylan Townley - Prospero - talk about adapting, directing and...	Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley
21	Teaching Shakespeare in Schools	A teacher talks about how she teaches Shakespeare in school, using video clips and references...	Joyti Chandegra
22	The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Bringing a scene to Life	The director Archie Cornish, and actor Dylan Townley, introduce the Revel speech in The Tempest...	Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley
23	What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3	Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a...	Helena Kennedy
24	What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2	Judith Luna, the Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford World's Classics, draws on her...	Judith Luna
25	What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1	Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?...	Ankhi Mukherjee
26	Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored	Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane...	Kathryn Sutherland
27	The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising	Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen'...	Kathryn Sutherland
28	Great Writers Inspire- An Introduction to the Project	A short introductory video to the "Great Writers Inspire project.	Joshua Carr
29	Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"?	Dr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series...	Catherine Brown
30	Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting	Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including...	Catherine Brown
31	Literature and Form 2: Chapters	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series of talks introducing different writing forms and their use...	Catherine Brown
32	Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great...	Catherine Brown
33	What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discusses the question.	In this panel discussion from the Great Writers Inspire Engage Event workshop, Dr Seamus Perry,...	Seamus Perry, Margaret Kean, Peter McDonald, Ankhi Mukherjee, Rebecca Beasley
34	Dons, Deaths and Detectives: Oxford in Crime Fiction	Professor Colin Bundy, University of Oxford, talks at the Crime Fiction Day at St John's...	Colin Bundy
35	Chaucer	Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first...	Daniel Wakelin
36	Ezra Pound	Dr Rebecca Beasley explains why we should read Pound, someone she considers as the central...	Rebecca Beasley
37	Mary Leapor	Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished...	Jennifer Batt
38	DH Lawrence 7. Reception History	Catherine Brown gives the Seventh and final lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
39	DH Lawrence 6. Birds, Beasts and Children	Catherine Brown gives the sixth lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
40	John Milton	Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they...	Anna Beer
41	Only Collect: An Introduction to the World of the Poetic Miscellany	Dr Abigail Williams, Director of the Digital Miscellanies Index, explains how these popular...	Abigail Williams
42	DH Lawrence 5. The Alps	Catherine Brown gives the fifth lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
43	DH Lawrence 4. The World at Large	Catherine Brown gives the fourth lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
44	DH Lawrence 3. Christianity	Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
45	DH Lawrence 2. Humour	Catherine Brown gives the second lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
46	DH Lawrence 1. Consciousness	Catherine Brown gives the first lecture in the D.H. Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
47	J.M. Coetzee	Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee...	Peter McDonald
48	Olive Schreiner	Professor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist...	Elleke Boehmer
49	Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine	Dr Faith Binckes explains why modernist short story writer and critic Katherine Mansfield (1888-...	Faith Binckes
50	George Eliot - A Very Large Brain	Dr Catherine Brown gives a talk on George Eliot and her influences	Catherine Brown
51	William Blake	Dr David Fallon introduces the poetry, painting, and engraving of William Blake, focusing on the...	David Fallon
52	18th Century Labouring Class Poetry	Dr Jennifer Batt gives a talk on Stephen Duck, one of the 18th Century labouring-class poets	Jennifer Batt
53	Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing	Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing	Abigail Williams
54	Beowulf	Dr Francis Leneghan gives a talk on Beowulf, one of the most important works in Anglo-Saxon...	Francis Leneghan
55	Shakespeare and the Stage	Professor Tiffany Stern gives a talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in...	Tiffany Stern
56	The Authorised Version in Modern Literature: David and Job get makeovers	Prof Terence Wright (Newcastle University) gives the fourth lecture in the Manifold Greatness;...	Terrence Wright
57	This book of starres': biblical constellations in the poetry of Herbert and Vaughan	Prof Helen Wilcox (Bangor University) gives the third lecture in the Manifold Greatness"...	Helen Wilcox
58	Scissored and Pasted: readers and writers redoing and undoing King James	Prof Valentine Cunningham, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, gives the second lecture in the King...	Valentine Cunningham
59	The Making of the King James (Authorised) Version of the Bible 1604-1611	Professor Pauline Croft, Royal Holloway, University of London, first in the King James Bible...	Pauline Croft
60	Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters	In Swift's letters to his adored Stella, we see an elaborate combination of language and...	Abigail Williams
61	Athol Fugard: "Defining Moments"	Humanitas Inaugural Keynote Lecture - Athol Fugard: "Defining Moments" - in his life...	Athol Fugard
62	Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley	Alan Garner gives an illustrated lecture on the Legend of Alderley. This version of the myth of...	Alan Garner
63	First year English Tutorial: Old English Riddles	A tutorial given by Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College, Oxford University, to some first year...	Lucinda Rumsey
64	Old English Tour - British Library	Enhanced Podcast Tour of the Old English Manuscripts on display at the British Library by Dr S....	Stuart Lee

#	Title	Description	Contributor
1	Why should we study Old English Literature?	Dr Francis Leneghan of St Cross College, Oxford, discusses his current research around Beowulf...	Francis Leneghan
2	Victorian Realism and the Implied Reader	Michael Whitworth, English Faculty, Oxford University, gives a lecture at the English Faculty...	Michael Whitworth
3	Translations as Literature	Matthew Reynolds, Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for...	Matthew Reynolds
4	3. Art and Morality	Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's...	Sos Eltis
5	Wolves and Winter: Old Norse Myths and Children's Literature	Dr Carolyne Larrington, Supernumerary Fellow and Tutor in English, St John's College, gives...	Carolyne Larrington
6	2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist	Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the...	Sos Eltis
7	1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art	The first lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and...	Sos Eltis
8	What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls?	Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the...	Sandie Byrne
9	Smallpox in poetry	Smallpox was rife in the eighteenth century, leaving its mark both on its sufferers, and on the...	Elizabeth Atkinson
10	The poetry of war	Explores the aesthetics and impact of war poetry in the early eighteenth century, focussing on...	Abigail Williams
11	The Ladle: a comic poem	Matthew Prior's The Ladle was one of the most popular poems of the eighteenth century. This...	Louise Curran
12	Music in miscellanies	Much popular music of the eighteenth century is found in poetic miscellanies. But how was it...	Giles Lewin
13	Pastoral Poetry	Introduces the poetry of rural life, and its debt to classical sources.	Kathleen Lawton-Trask
14	Politics in poetry	This podcast explores the culture of Jacobitism in the eighteenth century, using a popular...	John McTague
15	The life of epigrams	This podcasts introduces the popular eighteenth century epigram	Dianne Mitchell
16	Petticoats and fashion	An introduction to the world of fashion and the politics of the petticoat, seen through the...	Elizabeth Atkinson
17	Information about Great Writers Inspire	Further information about the educational resource: http://...	Sarah Wilkin
18	Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre?	Professor Tiffany Stern of University College, Oxford, discusses her current research and...	Tiffany Stern, Ilana Lassman
19	Why should we study medieval romance?	Dr Nicholas Perkins of St Hugh's College, Oxford, discusses his current research and...	Nicholas Perkins, Sarah Wilkin
20	13.Bodleian Ballads Online: engagement for performance, teaching and research.	Cultural Connections talk by Giles Bergel. Part of the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School...	Giles Bergel.
21	16.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
22	06.Writing for New Audiences.	Cultural Connections workshop with novelist, screenwriter and Head of Creative Writing at Brunel...	Max Kinnings
23	Why should we study the humanities?	For those wanting a further challenge, Professor Helen Small of Pembroke College, Oxford,...	Helen Small, Ilana Lassman
24	Why should we study Johnson?	Professor Ros Ballaster of Mansfield College, Oxford, discusses her current research and...	Ros Ballaster, Sarah Wilkin
25	Why should we study Postcolonial Literature?	Professor Elleke Boehmer of Wolfson College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes...	Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Wilkin
26	Why should we study Chaucer?	Dr Laura Ashe of Worcester College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we...	Laura Ashe, Ilana Lassman
27	Why should we study Shakespeare?	Dr Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we...	Emma Smith, Ilana Lassman
28	Why should we study Dickens?	Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and...	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Ilana Lassman
29	03 Lire Sade avec Rousseau	This lecture is in French. Third lecture in the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches...	Mladen Kozul
30	08 Obscenity off the Scene: Sade's La Philosophie dans le Boudoir	This lecture is in English. Eighth lecture in the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches...	John Phillips
31	07 Sade, homme de lettres	This lecture is in French. Seventh lecture in the Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches...	Stéphanie Genand
32	Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears"	A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company on how Shakespeare...	Gregory Doran, Sam Leith
33	Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin'	A practical Masterclass looking at what clues Shakespeare puts into the verse for the actor....	Gregory Doran
34	Oriental Tales and Their Influence	Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's...	Ros Ballaster, Marina Warner
35	From Owen's Doomed Youth, to his doomed youth	Lecture at the event 'Wilfred Owen: From Doomed Youth to the Battle of the Sambre'....	Jean Moorcroft Wilson
36	From Mametz Wood to The General	Lecture on Siegfried Sassoon given at the Imperial War Museum, London, 12th November 2011.	Jean Moorcroft Wilson
37	The Last Phase	A discussion on the last phase of the First World War. A talk given at 'Wilfred Owen: From...	Max Egremont
38	"Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture	Historian Stella Tillyard delivers the fourth Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing and Portraiture....	Stella Tillyard
39	The real Jane Austen: A life in small things	Biographer Paula Byrne (Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the...	Paula Byrne
40	The Sandwich that Sabotaged Civilisation	Myths and Mistakes. How a well known photograph and an infamous lunch break have shaped our...	Dr Paul Miller
41	Popular fiction in World War One	An argument for a more nuanced assessment of the popular literature consumed by the wider public...	Jane Potter
42	Wartime Art and Grief	German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War.	Claudia Siebrecht
43	W.B. Yeats and the Ghost Club	Dr Tara Stubbs uses exciting new research findings to discuss the close links between Yeats...	Tara Stubbs
44	Shedding light on the dark ages	The Dark Ages are traditionally seen as nasty, brutish and short - a cultural and intellectual...	Janina Ramirez
45	The Merchant of Venice	This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships...	Emma Smith
46	Taming of the Shrew	Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the...	Emma Smith
47	A Midsummer Night's Dream	This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of...	Emma Smith
48	Language and History	Prof. Simon Horobin examines how the English language has changed over time, addressing such...	Simon Horobin
49	Much Ado About Nothing	Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John...	Emma Smith
50	The Better Part of Valour	Combatant Courage on the Western Front.	Edward Madigan
51	Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours?	The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914.	Catriona Pennell
52	Dickens' Railways	Professor Stephen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on...	Stephen Gill
53	Hamlet	The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play'...	Emma Smith
54	As You Like It	Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's...	Emma Smith
55	Kipling, the Elton John of his age?	Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late...	Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies
56	Postcolonial Women Writers	Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing...	Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies
57	Oscar Wilde's Women	Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context.	Sophie Duncan
58	Great Writers Inspire Great Writing	Alex Pryce considers how writers are readers, influenced and inspired by the works of other...	Alex Pryce
59	Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling	Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of...	Julian Thompson
60	DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer?	Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit...	Peter McDonald
61	Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 2: Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim	Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of...	Peter McDonald
62	Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe	Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of...	Peter McDonald
63	Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott	Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights,...	Jason Allen-Paisant, Dominic Davies
64	Julian Thompson on Sir Walter Scott	Dr Julian Thompson introduces 'the least read great writer in our literature'. He...	Julian Thompson
65	Shakespeare and Voice	Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare'...	Linda Gates
66	What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3	Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a...	Helena Kennedy
67	What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2	Judith Luna, the Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford World's Classics, draws on her...	Judith Luna
68	What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1	Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?...	Ankhi Mukherjee
69	Shackled by Language: The Representation and Self-Representation of English-Speaking Black Voices in Black Atlantic Writing	Cecilia Bennett considers the use of the English language in black Atlantic narratives.	Cecilia Bennett
70	Rewriting Jane Eyre: The Avenging 'Angel in the House' in Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White	Erin Nyborg draws parallels between Michael Faber's 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the...	Erin Nyborg
71	Olive Schreiner	Dominic Davies talks about Olive Schreiner, the postcolonial South African author, and how her...	Dominic Davies
72	A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'.	Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early...	Sally Bayley
73	The Romance of the Middle Ages	Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially...	Nicholas Perkins
74	Dickens's Points of View	Professor Jon Mee, University of Warwick, discusses how Dickens's fiction can be considered...	Jon Mee
75	Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored	Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane...	Kathryn Sutherland
76	The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising	Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen'...	Kathryn Sutherland
77	Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"?	Dr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series...	Catherine Brown
78	Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting	Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including...	Catherine Brown
79	Literature and Form 2: Chapters	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series of talks introducing different writing forms and their use...	Catherine Brown
80	Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great...	Catherine Brown
81	What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discussion.	In this panel discussion from the Great Writers Inspire Engage Event workshop, Dr Seamus Perry,...	Seamus Perry, Margaret Kean, Peter McDonald, Ankhi Mukherjee, Rebecca Beasley
82	Dons, Deaths and Detectives: Oxford in Crime Fiction	Professor Colin Bundy, University of Oxford, talks at the Crime Fiction Day at St John's...	Colin Bundy
83	Julian Thompson on Wilkie Collins	Dr. Julian Thompson considers how Wilkie Collins's fiction was pioneering across a variety...	Julian Thompson
84	Chaucer	Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first...	Daniel Wakelin
85	Shakespeare and Medieval Romance	Professor Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge, speaks about the continuities between the...	Helen Cooper
86	Ezra Pound	Dr Rebecca Beasley explains why we should read Pound, someone she considers as the central...	Rebecca Beasley
87	Mary Leapor	Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished...	Jennifer Batt
88	DH Lawrence 7. Reception History	Catherine Brown gives the Seventh and final lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
89	DH Lawrence 6. Birds, Beasts and Children	Catherine Brown gives the sixth lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
90	John Milton	Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they...	Anna Beer
91	The Lure of the East: the Oriental and Philosophical Tale in Eighteenth-Century England	Professor Ros Ballaster discusses the objectives of oriental tales published in the second half...	Ros Ballaster
92	Only Collect: An Introduction to the World of the Poetic Miscellany	Dr Abigail Williams, Director of the Digital Miscellanies Index, explains how these popular...	Abigail Williams
93	"Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation	The first Weinrebe lecture in life-writing was given by Michèle Roberts, Emeritus Professor of...	Michèle Roberts
94	Why Dickens?	Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made...	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
95	DH Lawrence 5. The Alps	Catherine Brown gives the fifth lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
96	DH Lawrence 4. The World at Large	Catherine Brown gives the fourth lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
97	DH Lawrence 3. Christianity	Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
98	The Birth of Romance in England	Dr Laura Ashe delivers a lecture on the birth of romance in England in the 12th Century, part of...	Laura Ashe
99	King Lear	Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King...	Emma Smith
100	Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction	The award-winning author and memoirist Candia McWilliam attests to the edifying power of fiction...	Candia McWilliam
101	DH Lawrence 2. Humour	Catherine Brown gives the second lecture in the DH Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
102	DH Lawrence 1. Consciousness	Catherine Brown gives her first lecture in the D.H. Lawrence series	Catherine Brown
103	Babbling a Dialect of France: Loanwords, French, and Johnson's Dictionary	Professor Mugglestone discusses the concept of loanwords in relationship to Samuel Johnson'...	Lynda Mugglestone
104	King John	At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the...	Emma Smith
105	What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography	Booker Prize winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst discusses fiction and biography in conversation...	Alan Hollinghurst, Hermione Lee
106	J.M. Coetzee	Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee...	Peter McDonald
107	Olive Schreiner	Professor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist...	Elleke Boehmer
108	Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine	Dr Faith Binckes explains why modernist short story writer and critic Katherine Mansfield (1888-...	Faith Binckes
109	George Eliot - A Very Large Brain	In this ten minute podcast, Dr Catherine Brown discusses George Eliot's intellectual...	Catherine Brown
110	William Blake	Dr David Fallon introduces the poetry, painting, and engraving of William Blake, focusing on the...	David Fallon
111	18th Century Labouring Class Poetry	Dr Jennifer Batt gives a talk on Stephen Duck, one of the 18th Century labouring-class poets	Jennifer Batt
112	Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing	Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing	Abigail Williams
113	Beowulf	Dr Francis Leneghan gives a talk on Beowulf, one of the most important works in Anglo-Saxon...	Francis Leneghan
114	Shakespeare and the Stage	Professor Tiffany Stern gives a talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in...	Tiffany Stern
115	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the...	Emma Smith
116	Richard III	In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the...	Emma Smith
117	Cristian Aliaga: Your Virtues Are Your Faults. Poetry Reading (Spanish and English)	A reading by Cristian Aliaga, one of Argentina's outstanding contemporary poets, given at...	Cristian Aliaga, Ben Bollig
118	The Comedy of Errors	Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical...	Emma Smith
119	The Joys of Cricket	This podcast looks at cricket seen through eighteenth-century eyes, focussing on a poem by James...	Adam Rounce
120	George Eliot 3. Reception History	In this third and final podcast, Dr Catherine Brown discusses the popularity of George Eliot...	Catherine Brown
121	History of English Pronunciation	Do we really know what Chaucer's poetry sounded like? Professor Simon Horobin introduces...	Simon Horobin
122	Henry IV part 1	Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John...	Emma Smith
123	George Eliot 2. Genre and Justice	The second lecture in the series on George Eliot considers how narrative justice operates in...	Catherine Brown
124	The Tempest	That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The...	Emma Smith
125	George Eliot 1. Intellect and Consciousness	In this lecture Dr Catherine Brown brings her discussion to focus primarily upon Eliot's...	Catherine Brown
126	Antony and Cleopatra	What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The...	Emma Smith
127	Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)	Professor Charlotte Brewer introduces the methodology behind the creation of the OED and how...	Charlotte Brewer
128	Richard II	Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II...	Emma Smith
129	Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth	Catherine Brown, Lecturer in English Literature, compares West Indian writers Derek Walcott and...	Catherine Brown
130	English and Gender	Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by...	Deborah Cameron
131	Twelfth Night	The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio...	Emma Smith
132	Titus Andronicus	Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth...	Emma Smith
133	Poetry and Tobacco	This podcast looks at the relationship between tobacco and poetic inspiration, through some...	Abigail Williams, Laurence Williams, John Clargo
134	The King James Bible: The End of the Road?	A conversation between Melvyn Bragg and Diarmaid MacCulloch, chaired by the Chancellor of the...	Diarmaid MacCulloch, Melvyn Bragg, Chris Patten
135	The Authorised Version in Modern Literature: David and Job get makeovers	Prof Terence Wright (Newcastle University) gives the fourth lecture in the Manifold Greatness;...	Terrence Wright
136	This book of starres': biblical constellations in the poetry of Herbert and Vaughan	Prof Helen Wilcox (Bangor University) gives the third lecture in the Manifold Greatness"...	Helen Wilcox
137	Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature	Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie...	Paul Eggert
138	Scissored and Pasted: readers and writers redoing and undoing King James	Prof Valentine Cunningham, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, gives the second lecture in the King...	Valentine Cunningham
139	The Making of the King James (Authorised) Version of the Bible 1604-1611	Professor Pauline Croft, Royal Holloway, University of London, first in the King James Bible...	Pauline Croft
140	Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters	In Swift's letters to his adored Stella, we see an elaborate combination of language and...	Abigail Williams
141	Athol Fugard: "Defining Moments"	Humanitas Inaugural Keynote Lecture - Athol Fugard: "Defining Moments" - in his life...	Athol Fugard
142	Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's...	Nouran Koriem
143	William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after...	Hoare Nairne
144	Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in...	Henry Cockburn
145	Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the...	Jordan Saxby
146	Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life'	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley worked on 'The Triumph of Life',...	Hoare Nairne
147	Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane'	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley presented this light-hearted poem, copied...	Jordan Saxby
148	Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind	Part of the Shelly's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley's best-known poem was written in...	Christopher Adams
149	Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias'	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Ozymandias' is the Greek name for Ramses...	Christopher Adams
150	Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein	Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first notebook was probably...	Christopher Adams
151	Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816,...	Hannah Morrell
152	Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the...	Nouran Koriem
153	Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814...	Henry Cockburn
154	Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Using false names, Shelley sent copies of The...	Henry Cockburn
155	William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Godwin's memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft has...	Henry Cockburn
156	Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Even after their marriage Godwin and Wollstonecraft...	Hannah Morrell
157	Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued...	Annabell James
158	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
159	Macbeth	In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes...	Emma Smith
160	Measure for Measure	The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question...	Emma Smith
161	Henry V	The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether...	Emma Smith
162	The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained	From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Emma Smith reveals how Oxford University mobilised Alumni support...	Emma Smith
163	Othello	Othello - First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the...	Emma Smith
164	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
165	Can Poetry be Translated?	Third part of the What is Translation podcast series. In this part, the question of whether...	Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick
166	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
167	Is there a Core to Translation?	First part of the What is Translation podcast series looking at translation of classical texts....	Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick
168	Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places Discussion The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds, and Robert Powell take part in a discussion on the subject of pieces...	Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds, Robert Powell
169	Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places - Reading of Alan Garner's Work	The 50th anniversary of the publication of Alan Garner's first novel, The Weirdstone of...	Robert Powell, Alan Garner
170	Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley	Alan Garner gives an illustrated lecture on the Legend of Alderley. This version of the myth of...	Alan Garner
171	Senses of Reality: Writing the Biography of a Revolutionary Generation	The annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture given at Wolfson College on May 27th 2010.	Roy Foster
172	War and Civilization Series Lecture 2: War and Poetry	Geoffrey Hill is currently Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University and in 2009...	Geoffrey Hill
173	The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day	Judith Priestman, curator of the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 exhibition...	Judith Priestman
174	Philip Pullman: Lyra's Oxford, Bodleian Library Masterclass	Acclaimed author of His Dark Materials Philip Pullman is interviewed by Margaret Kean on his new...	Philip Pullman, Margaret Kean
175	Is Tragedy still Alive?	Discussion on whether tragedy still exists in modern culture, whether in films, modern theatre...	Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
176	Does Tragedy Teach?	Third dialogue on the nature of tragedy where they talk about whether tragic theatre teaches...	Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
177	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
178	Defining Tragedy	First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what '...	Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
179	Censorship in South Africa: Introduction	Peter McDonald talks briefly about what first interested him in Censorship of Literature in...	Peter McDonald
180	Peter McDonald on Censorship in South Africa	Peter McDonald talks with Oliver Lewis about censorship, its philosophical basis and general...	Peter McDonald, Oliver Lewis
181	Lewis Carroll in Numberland	An intriguing biographical exploration of Lewis Carroll, focusing on the author's...	Robin Wilson
182	The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster	In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy...	Emma Smith
183	Political Perspectives to State Censorship of Literature	Peter McDonald and David Robertson discuss the idea of state censorship, especially Apartheid...	Peter McDonald, David Robertson
184	Literature and State Censorship: A literary perspective	Peter McDonald and Elleke Bohemer discuss state censorship from a literary perspective; also...	Peter McDonald, Elleke Boehmer
185	Legal issues in state censorship	Peter McDonald and Liora Lazarus discuss the legal issues of state censorship especially in...	Peter McDonald, Liora Lazarus
186	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
187	The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton	A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and...	Emma Smith
188	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
189	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
190	The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd	Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes...	Emma Smith
191	Peter McDonald on Literature	Summary: Peter McDonald talks about how he became to be interested in Literature, how he became...	Peter McDonald, Oliver Lewis
192	First year English Tutorial: Old English Riddles	A tutorial given by Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College, Oxford University, to some first year...	Lucinda Rumsey
193	Old English in Context Lecture 4 - Manuscripts	Fourth and final lecture by Dr S D Lee, University of Oxford, on Old English in Context. 7/2/08...	Stuart Lee
194	Old English in Context Lecture 3 - Religion and Magic	Lecture 3 in a series on placing Old English in Context, Religion and magic. Delivered by Dr S D...	Stuart Lee
195	Old English in Context Lecture 2 - Society	Lecture delivered by Dr Stuart D Lee, 24/1/08, English Faculty, University of Oxford on Anglo-...	Stuart Lee
196	Old English in Context Lecture 1 - Historical texts	Lecture by Dr S. D. Lee, Faculty of English, Oxford University - placing Old English literature...	Stuart Lee
197	Max Arthur Interview	An interview with Max Arthur, author of 'Forgotten Voices', 'Last Post', and...	Max Arthur
198	Anglo-Saxon Tour - British Museum	Audio only Tour of the Anglo-Saxon exhibits on display at the British Museum by Dr S. D. Lee,...	Stuart Lee
199	Beowulf reading, ll. 26-52	Reading from Beowulf ll. 26-52 by Stuart D Lee, University of Oxford. Recorded March 2007.	Stuart Lee
200	Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reading	Reading from an entry in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Stuart D Lee, University of Oxford....	Stuart Lee
201	Old English Tour - British Library	Audio Only Tour of the Old English Manuscripts on display at the British Library by Dr S. D. Lee...	Stuart Lee

#	Title	Description	Author
1	3. Art and Morality (handout)	Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's...	Sos Eltis
2	2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist (handout)	Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the...	Sos Eltis
3	1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art (handout)	First lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and his...	Sos Eltis
4	Arden of Faversham: Anon (eBook)	Arden of Feversham / Unknown. This is the epub edition of the play.	Anonymous

#	Resource Title	Description	Contributor
1	Prismatic Jane Eyre	The website Prismatic Jane Eyre: An Experiment in the Study of Translations is now live at ...	Matthew Reynolds

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