Approaching Shakespeare

A podcast by Oxford University

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Education

32 Episodes

  1. Love's Labour's Lost

    Published: 2/12/2024

  2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    Published: 12/15/2017

  3. Henry VI, Part 2

    Published: 11/9/2017

  4. The Merry Wives of Windsor

    Published: 10/25/2017

  5. All's Well That Ends Well

    Published: 10/25/2017

  6. Cymbeline

    Published: 10/25/2017

  7. Timon of Athens

    Published: 6/23/2015

  8. Julius Caesar

    Published: 5/18/2015

  9. Romeo and Juliet

    Published: 5/5/2015

  10. Coriolanus

    Published: 5/5/2015

  11. The Merchant of Venice

    Published: 11/20/2012

  12. Taming of the Shrew

    Published: 11/9/2012

  13. A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Published: 11/5/2012

  14. Much Ado About Nothing

    Published: 10/30/2012

  15. Hamlet

    Published: 10/23/2012

  16. As You Like It

    Published: 10/23/2012

  17. King Lear

    Published: 2/22/2012

  18. King John

    Published: 2/10/2012

  19. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    Published: 2/1/2012

  20. Richard III

    Published: 1/25/2012

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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 might be used to strengthen our critical analysis, and, above all, the enjoyable and unavoidable fact that Shakespeare's plays tend to generate our questions rather than answer them.