The Merry Wives of Windsor

Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost.

Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2.

Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well.

Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline.

Emma Smith finishes her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Timon of Athens.

This lecture on Julius Caesar discusses structure, tone, and politics by focusing on the cameo scene with Cinna the Poet.

This lecture on Romeo and Juliet tackles the issue of the spoiler-chorus, in an already-too-familiar play. This podcast is suitable for school and college students.

This lecture takes up a detail from Shakespeare’s late Roman tragedy Coriolanus to ask about the representation of character, the use of sources and the genre of tragedy. This podcast is suitable for school and college students.