Faculty of English - Introductions
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Theatre, 1660-1760 - The Arrival of the Actress
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Taylor on the arrival of female actors on the stage. In this undergraduate lecture, David Taylor describes one of the key theatrical development...
Theatre, 1660-1760 - Restoration and Change
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Taylor lectures on the reopening of the theatres in the 1660s. In this undergraduate lecture, David Taylor considers the new forms, practices, a...
Race and Empire, 1660-1760
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Scobie lectures on race and empire, 1660-1760. In this introductory lecture, Ruth Scobie outlines some of the historical contexts of literature w...
Drama and the Theatre, 1660-1760
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Abigail Williams lectures on the staging of Restoration drama. In this introductory lecture, Abigail Williams investigates the staging of Restoration ...
Literature and Gender, 1660-1760
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Keown considers representations of gender in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this introductory lecture, Kathleen Keown considers...
Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Carly Watson outlines the material forms in which literary texts circulated between 1660 and 1760. In this introductory lecture, Carly Watson outlines...
What is a Literary Period?
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Clare Bucknell considers how we define a literary period. In this introductory lecture, Clare Bucknell considers how we define a literary period and h...
Nineteenth-Century Stuff - Dickens, Paperwork and Paper Sorrows
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Ratcliffe investigates the material culture of the Victorians, using examples from Charles Dickens. In this Open Day taster lecture, Sophie Rat...
What is a War Poem?
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kate McLoughlin explores how we might define a war poem. In this Open Day taster lecture, Kate McLoughlin explores how we might define a war poem, loo...
Diaries as Literature - The Case of Virginia Woolf
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Whitworth considers whether diaries are literature, looking particularly at the diaries of Virginia Woolf. In this Open Day taster lecture, Mi...
Character in Modern Drama
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr investigates 'character' in Modern Drama In this Open Day taster lecture, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr investigates how the notion of ‘...
Brilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams; or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sos Eltis looks at Oscar Wilde’s 1895 trial. In this Open Day taster lecture, Sos Eltis explores the complex causes which motivated Oscar Wilde’s ...