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Creative Commons |
The Merchant of Venice |
This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are shaped by models of financial transaction, using the casket scenes as a central example. |
0:43:34 |
Emma Smith |
20 Nov 2012 |
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Taming of the Shrew |
Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the question of whether Katherine is tamed at the end of the play. |
0:43:57 |
Emma Smith |
09 Nov 2012 |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to uncover a play less concerned with marriage and more with sexual desire. |
0:40:37 |
Emma Smith |
05 Nov 2012 |
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Language and History |
Prof. Simon Horobin examines how the English language has changed over time, addressing such vexed questions as whether Jane Austen could spell, the fate of the apostrophe and whether people who 'literally' explode with anger are corrupting the language. |
0:26:40 |
Simon Horobin |
30 Oct 2012 |
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Much Ado About Nothing |
Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John, drawing on gender and performance criticism to think about male bonding, the genre of comedy, and the impulses of modern performance. |
0:41:58 |
Emma Smith |
30 Oct 2012 |
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Hamlet |
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's nostalgia, drawing on biographical criticism and the religious and political history of early modern England. |
0:46:08 |
Emma Smith |
23 Oct 2012 |
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As You Like It |
Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and its ambiguous use of pastoral, drawing on performance history, genre theory, and eco-critical approaches. |
0:49:06 |
Emma Smith |
23 Oct 2012 |
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Hard words, best words words in use, writing the inventory of english |
English, as its vocabulary confirms, is constantly on the move - both words and meaning act as witnesses to time and change, revealing the diverse pathways of contact and conflict with other nations, as well as changes in culture and identity. |
0:26:52 |
Lynda Muggletstone |
09 Oct 2012 |
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The causes of Specific Language Impairment |
Professor Dorothy Bishop gives a talk for the RALLI (Raising Awareness of Language Learning Impairments) Campaign on Language Impairments |
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Dorothy Bishop |
23 Jul 2012 |
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When Should We Be Worried About Late Talkers? |
Professor Dorothy Bishop gives a talk for the RALLI (Raising Awareness of Language Learning Impairments) Campaign |
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Dorothy Bishop |
23 Jul 2012 |
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Varieties of Language Impairment in Children |
Professor Dorothy Bishop gives a talk on the different types of language impairment in children |
0:51:52 |
Dorothy Bishop |
23 Jul 2012 |
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Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Dyslexia: Syndromes, Memes and Illusions |
Professor Dorothy Bishop gives the keynote presentation at the 2012 British Psychological Society Annual Conference |
0:55:51 |
Dorothy Bishop |
23 Jul 2012 |
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Metaphor and Synesthesia: Some Considerations on Expressive Blending |
April Pierce, DPhil Researcher at St Anne's College, Oxford, gives a talk on Metaphor and Synesthesia, a neurological condition. |
0:17:48 |
April Pierce |
26 Apr 2012 |
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King Lear |
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives pleasure. |
0:47:25 |
Emma Smith |
22 Feb 2012 |
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King John |
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at the ways history and legitimacy are complicated in this plotline. |
0:45:11 |
Emma Smith |
10 Feb 2012 |
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series shows some of its self-conscious artistry and contemporary popularity. |
0:40:42 |
Emma Smith |
01 Feb 2012 |
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Richard III |
In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the inevitability of the ending of Richard III: does the play endorse Richmond's final victory? |
0:45:09 |
Emma Smith |
25 Jan 2012 |
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The Comedy of Errors |
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical exploits of Comedy of Errors, drawing out the play's serious concerns with identity and selfhood. |
0:46:50 |
Emma Smith |
23 Jan 2012 |
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History of English Pronunciation |
Do we really know what Chaucer's poetry sounded like? Professor Simon Horobin introduces evidence that gives us an insight into the history of English pronunciation and explores what it tells us about how and why changes in language take place. |
0:19:31 |
Simon Horobin |
30 Nov 2011 |
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Henry IV part 1 |
Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John Falstaff and investigates his role in Henry IV part 1. Lecture 11 in the Approaching Shakespeare series. |
0:50:35 |
Emma Smith |
16 Nov 2011 |
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The Tempest |
That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The Tempest: this tenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture asks whether that is a useful reading of the play. |
0:48:58 |
Emma Smith |
14 Nov 2011 |
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Antony and Cleopatra |
What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The ninth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series tries to find out. |
0:46:50 |
Emma Smith |
10 Nov 2011 |
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Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) |
Professor Charlotte Brewer introduces the methodology behind the creation of the OED and how current activity to update the Dictionary may reveal new evidence about Shakespeare's impact on the English Language. |
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Charlotte Brewer |
08 Nov 2011 |
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Richard II |
Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II: does the play suggest Henry Bolingbroke's overthrow of the king was justified? |
0:45:16 |
Emma Smith |
01 Nov 2011 |
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English and Gender |
Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by women and men. Are we really so different? |
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Deborah Cameron |
21 Oct 2011 |
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Introduction to the MSt in English Language |
Professor Deborah Cameron introduces the new Master's course in English Language offered by the University of Oxford. |
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Deborah Cameron |
21 Oct 2011 |
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Twelfth Night |
The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio - and uses his presence to open up questions of sexuality, desire and the nature of romantic comedy. |
0:47:16 |
Emma Smith |
20 Oct 2011 |
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Titus Andronicus |
Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on Titus Andronicus deals with violence, rhetoric, and the nature of dramatic sensationalism. |
0:49:44 |
Emma Smith |
19 Oct 2011 |
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4. Metaphor and Art |
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the use of metaphor to describe music and other artworks. |
0:50:10 |
James Grant |
04 Jul 2011 |
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3. Speaking in Metaphor |
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the question of how we succeed in communicating to others with metaphor. He also examines the question of whether all metaphors can be paraphrased. |
0:51:28 |
James Grant |
04 Jul 2011 |
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2. How Metaphors Mean |
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses different theories about what gives metaphors the special meaning or content they have. |
0:53:13 |
James Grant |
04 Jul 2011 |
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1. What Metaphors Mean |
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, introduces some of the key concepts in discussions of metaphor in the philosophy of language. |
0:54:50 |
James Grant |
04 Jul 2011 |
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The Winter's Tale |
How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its conclusion? That's the topic for this fifth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on The Winter's Tale. |
0:42:58 |
Emma Smith |
09 Nov 2010 |
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Macbeth |
In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes happen the things that happen in Macbeth? |
0:46:00 |
Emma Smith |
02 Nov 2010 |
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Creative Commons |
Measure for Measure |
The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question of this uncomic comedy's genre. |
0:40:47 |
Emma Smith |
26 Oct 2010 |
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What Will A Companionable Computational Agent Be Like? (Lovelace Lecture 2010) |
Yorick Wilks explores the state of the art in modelling realistic conversation with computers over the last 40 years, and asks what we would want in a conversational agent (or 'Companion') designed for a long-term relationship with a user. |
1:01:47 |
Yorick Wilks |
20 Jul 2010 |
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Talking Tolkien: The influences of Medieval Literature on the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien |
Stuart Lee and Elizabeth Solopova discuss the influences of medieval literature on the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. |
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Stuart Lee, Elizabeth Solopova, Tara Mulholland |
25 Mar 2010 |
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Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind and Nature |
On the triangulation between consciousness, language and nature in Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind and proposes a philosophy of signs and interpretation as a basis for a philosophy of mind, language and nature. |
1:05:53 |
Gunter Abel |
22 Dec 2009 |
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The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster |
In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates perennial questions about female autonomy and class distinction. |
0:37:41 |
Emma Smith |
24 Nov 2009 |
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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-turvy genders has fun with some very modern ideas about sexuality, identity and whether we are what we wear. |
0:48:15 |
Emma Smith |
13 Nov 2009 |
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The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton |
A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-interest, this play is both fascinated and repelled by its own depravity. |
0:45:30 |
Emma Smith |
06 Nov 2009 |
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The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker |
Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context of shortages, political malaise and general pessimism, but real life in the shape of war, class antagonism and civic tensions, always threatens to intrude. |
0:45:33 |
Emma Smith |
06 Nov 2009 |
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Arden of Faversham: Anon |
A true crime story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife and her lover, this play is concerned with the politics of the household, with gender roles within marriage, and presents a black comedy of botched murder attempts rather like The Ladykillers. |
0:41:38 |
Emma Smith |
05 Nov 2009 |
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Creative Commons |
The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd |
Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes revenge. It speaks, like Hollywood Westerns, to questions about private revenge versus public justice, and to the vexed religious questions of its age. |
0:49:05 |
Emma Smith |
05 Nov 2009 |
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Language disorders in children: What can they tell us about genes and brains? |
Recent studies have shown that genes are strongly implicated in determining if children will develop language disorders. In this talk, Professor Bishop examines the role genetics play in language development and language disorders. |
0:51:09 |
Dorothy Bishop |
28 Oct 2009 |
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Creative Commons |
Languages disorders in children: What can they tell us about genes and brains? |
Recent studies have shown that genes are strongly implicated in determining if children will develop language disorders. In this talk, Professor Bishop examines the role genetics play in language development and language disorders. |
0:51:09 |
Dorothy Bishop |
28 Oct 2009 |
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Greg Kochanski on Phonetics |
Dr Greg Kochanski, a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory, talks about how experiments in phonetics are conducted, how we study the history of language, and how speech changes over time. |
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Greg Kochanski, Oliver Lewis |
31 Aug 2008 |
