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What is Tragedy?

Is Tragedy still Alive?

Discussion on whether tragedy still exists in modern culture, whether in films, modern theatre or and other creative arts.
What is Tragedy?

Does Tragedy Teach?

Third dialogue on the nature of tragedy where they talk about whether tragic theatre teaches people, and if it does, how and what does it teach?
What is Tragedy?

What does Tragedy do for People?

A discussion of what the use of tragedy is, and whether the emotional experience of tragic theatre is simply a passing thrill or a vital part of life.
What is Tragedy?

Defining Tragedy

First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what 'tragedy' means, from its origins in Greek culture to philosophical notions of what tragedy and tragic drama are.
Censorship in Literature in South Africa

Censorship in South Africa: Introduction

Peter McDonald talks briefly about what first interested him in Censorship of Literature in South Africa.
Censorship in Literature in South Africa

Peter McDonald on Censorship in South Africa

Peter McDonald talks with Oliver Lewis about censorship, its philosophical basis and general history within Apartheid South Africa.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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.
Censorship in Literature in South Africa

Political Perspectives to State Censorship of Literature

Peter McDonald and David Robertson discuss the idea of state censorship, especially Apartheid era South Africa, looking at the political perspectives and implications of state censorship of literature.
Censorship in Literature in South Africa

Literature and State Censorship: A literary perspective

Peter McDonald and Elleke Bohemer discuss state censorship from a literary perspective; also discussing the issues of nationalism, modernism and Apartheid.
Censorship in Literature in South Africa

Legal issues in state censorship

Peter McDonald and Liora Lazarus discuss the legal issues of state censorship especially in Apartheid era South Africa.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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.
Interviews with Oxonians

Peter McDonald on Literature

Summary: Peter McDonald talks about how he became to be interested in Literature, how he became to be an academic at Oxford and what it is like to study literature at Oxford.
English Tutorials at Mansfield College

First year English Tutorial: Old English Riddles

A tutorial given by Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College, Oxford University, to some first year degree students about Old English Riddles.
Medieval English

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.
Medieval English

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 Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford - 31/1/08.
Medieval English

Old English in Context Lecture 2 - Society

Lecture delivered by Dr Stuart D Lee, 24/1/08, English Faculty, University of Oxford on Anglo-Saxon society in relation to the literature.
Medieval English

Old English in Context Lecture 1 - Historical texts

Lecture by Dr S. D. Lee, Faculty of English, Oxford University - placing Old English literature in its historical and social context.

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