Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

English Renaissance dramatists, 16th-century English dramatists and playwrights

4 episodes

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  1. Marlowe

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Christopher Marlowe; a forger, a brawler, a spy, but above all a playwright, a poet and the most celebrated writer of his generation.

    7 July 2005

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    Featuring: Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonathan Bate, Emma J. Smith

     
  2. Shakespeare and Literary Criticism

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare and examines whether literary criticism and the academic institution ruins the pleasure of reading.

    4 March 1999

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    Featuring: Harold Bloom, Jacqueline Rose

     
  3. Shakespeare's Life

    Melvyn Bragg discusses what we know about the life of William Shakespeare, a tantalising conundrum that has exercised minds since the day the playwright died.

    15 March 2001

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    Featuring: Katherine Duncan-Jones, John Sutherland, Grace Ioppolo

     
  4. Shakespeare's Work

    Melvyn Bragg discusses whether the work of William Shakespeare is 'not of an age but for all time' or increasingly irrelevant museum pieces embalmed in out of reach language.

    11 May 2000

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    Featuring: Frank Kermode, Michael Bogdanov, Germaine Greer