Emma J. Smith
Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of Oxford
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureEnglish male poetsEnglish male dramatists and playwrightsPeople of the Elizabethan era16th-century English poetsEnglish Renaissance dramatists, 16th-century English dramatists and playwrightsShakespearean histories, Fiction set in the Late Middle Ages, Plays by William Shakespeare, Propaganda in the United KingdomLatin–English translators16th-century English male writersEnglish spies16th-century English translatorsDeaths by stabbing in England, People murdered in England, English murder victims
Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's treatment of English Plantagenet history from Richard II to Richard III and all the Henrys in between, written under Elizabeth I.
11 October 2018
Also featuring: Gordon McMullan, Katherine Lewis
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
Also featuring: Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonathan Bate
CultureEnglish male poetsEnglish male dramatists and playwrightsPeople of the Elizabethan era16th-century English poetsLatin–English translators16th-century English male writersEnglish spies16th-century English translatorsEnglish Renaissance dramatists, 16th-century English dramatists and playwrightsDeaths by stabbing in England, People murdered in England, English murder victims