THAT THE ARCHIVES ARE SILENT ABOUT: Secrets of the Vatican Archives
1K views · Sep 15, 2024
Emilio Moretti, a historian, is summoned to the Vatican's Underground Archives, a secretive realm rumored to hold documents that could rewrite history. Guided by Cardinal Lorenzo, he discovers an unmarked book detailing an alternate account of the Council
The Death Masks of Macbeth
43K views · May 3, 2025
In this short talk Professor Simon Palfrey explores the deathly afterlives of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ and reads extracts from his novel 'Macbeth, Macbeth'. Simon Palfrey is Professor of English Literature at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. His re
SHAKESPEARE, MIND AND WORLD
7K views · May 7, 2025
Tom MacFaul discusses how Shakespeare’s age thought about thinking. In particular, he looks at the transformative power of thought and the idea in some of Shakespeare’s works that the mind is free to create its own world. #shakespeare, #mind, #drama. Sou
Shakespeare's Animals
754 views · May 10, 2025
Why are animals everywhere in Shakespeare's language? Only two actual animals definitely appear in Shakespeare’s plays: a naughty dog in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and a hungry bear in The Winter’s Tale. But animals are everywhere in Shakespeare’s langua
Why Austen? More Than Just Balls and Romance
1K views · May 11, 2025
Why Austen? More Than Just Balls and Romance Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are little more than Mills and Boon-type romances in empire-line frocks. This talk will introduce fictions whose r
Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and other elegies
128 views · May 14, 2025
Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. Ben Jonson wrote in 1623 that Shakespeare 'art a Moniment, without a tombe/ And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live'. Centuries later Jorge Luis Borges obs
16.To Shakespeare and Beyond: a panel discussion.
2K views · May 15, 2025
Cultural Connections discussion panel Casandra Ash, Peter Kirwan, Jose Perez Diaz and Emma Smith. Part of the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2013. #William Shakespeare, #humanities, #culture, #research, #digital media, #publicengagement, #comp
Acting Masterclass: `Lend me your ears`
53 views · May 20, 2025
A second Masterclass on how Shakespeare spins rhetoric for the actor, with Sam Leith, journalist and writer, and author of 'You Talkin' to Me'. Students from Oxford University Drama Society will take part in the masterclass with an audience. #humanities,
ACTING MASTERCLASS: 'PYRAMUS, YOU BEGIN'
380 views · May 28, 2025
A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company looking at what clues Shakespeare puts into the verse for the actor. Students from Oxford University Drama Society rehearse Romeo and Juliet in front of an audience. Cite: Acting M
The language of Shakespeare
380 views · May 29, 2025
The language of Shakespeare Actors and the director talk about how they have approached and worked with their student production of the Shakespeare play - Two Gentlemen of Verona. They discuss some of the challenges of the text and what they have done to
Understanding Shakespeare
10 views · May 29, 2025
The actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it for his role in the student production of the Shakespeare play Two Gentlemen of Verona. #greatwriters, #shakespeare, #literature, #performance, #drama Cite:Und
Altamont: A Cautionary Tale of Chaos
0 views · May 31, 2025
The Altamont Free Concert on December 6, 1969, aimed to replicate Woodstock's success, attracting 300,000 attendees in California. Headlined by the Rolling Stones, the event quickly descended into chaos due to poor planning and security provided by the He
Ancient Sumerian Humor: The First Jokes
1 views · May 31, 2025
Around 1900 BCE, the Sumerians created the world's oldest jokes, etched into clay tablets. Their humor, often centered on bodily functions and absurd scenarios, reflects everyday life. Notable examples include jokes about young women and tavern antics. En