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The Future of English as a World Language Podcast »
Categories: Podcasts, The Future of English
Click on the link below to listen to an item on ‘The Future of English as a World Language’ on The Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 with David Graddol being interviewed.
The Future of English as a World Language
Dawn French & David Crystal on Youth Speak on BBC 2 Radio »
Categories: Podcasts, Youth Speak
Click on the link below to listen to Dawn French and David Crystal on Youth Speak on BBC 2 Radio via Heald of Dreams by Ant Heald.
http://mrheald.posterous.com/dawn-french-and-david-crystal-on-youth-speak
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre Podcasts »
Categories: Podcasts, Popular Theatre: Not Shakespeare Series, Not Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
Click on the links below to access a series of excellent podcasts entitled ‘Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre’ by Emma Smith (Lecturer in English at Oxford University).
Source: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
‘This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about - from immigrants in early modern London to the role of women in the household, from what...
[ read full article ] »What is Tragedy? Podcasts »
Categories: Podcasts, What is Tragedy?, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Plays
Click on the links below to access a series of excellent podcasts entitled ‘What is Tragedy?’ by Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor) and Joshua Billings, (a graduate student in the Oxford Classics Faculty).
Source: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
‘Tragedy has been around for over 2500 years, from its earliest manifestations in the huge open-air gathering-places of Athens and other Greek city-states, to the theatres of Renaissance England, Spain and France, right through to the twentieth century with its cinematic tragedies, and the disturbing works...
[ read full article ] »Approaching Shakespeare Podcasts »
Categories: Podcasts, Approaching Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Plays
Click on the links below to access a series of excellent podcasts entitled ‘Approaching Shakespeare’ by Emma Smith (Lecturer in English at Oxford University).
Source: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
‘Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it.
Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series aims to show the variety of different ways we might understand Shakespeare, the kinds of evidence that...
[ read full article ] »The Future of English as a World Language Podcast »
Click on the link below to listen to an item on ‘The Future of English as a World Language’ on The Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 with David Graddol being interviewed.
The Future of English as a World Language
Dawn French & David Crystal on Youth Speak on BBC 2 Radio »
Click on the link below to listen to Dawn French and David Crystal on Youth Speak on BBC 2 Radio via Heald of Dreams by Ant Heald.
http://mrheald.posterous.com/dawn-french-and-david-crystal-on-youth-speak
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre Podcasts »
Click on the links below to access a series of excellent podcasts entitled ‘Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre’ by Emma Smith (Lecturer in English at Oxford University).
Source: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
[ read full article ] »‘This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about - from immigrants in early modern London to the role of women in the...
What is Tragedy? Podcasts »
Click on the links below to access a series of excellent podcasts entitled ‘What is Tragedy?’ by Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor) and Joshua Billings, (a graduate student in the Oxford Classics Faculty).
Source: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
[ read full article ] »‘Tragedy has been around for over 2500 years, from its earliest manifestations in the huge open-air gathering-places of Athens and other Greek city-states, to the theatres of Renaissance England, Spain and France, right through to the twentieth century with its cinematic...
Approaching Shakespeare Podcasts »
Click on the links below to access a series of excellent podcasts entitled ‘Approaching Shakespeare’ by Emma Smith (Lecturer in English at Oxford University).
Source: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
[ read full article ] »‘Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it.
Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series aims to show the variety of different ways we might understand Shakespeare,...
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