
Julie Sanders
Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham
5 episodes
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss a masterpiece of 17th-century medicine and literature: Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.
12 May 2011
Also featuring: Mary Ann Lund, Erin Sullivan
History of Metaphor
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of metaphor - the device of using one thing to describe another.
25 November 2010
Also featuring: Steven Connor, Tom Healy
Elizabethan Revenge
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why revenge tragedy was so popular with Elizabethan theatre goers, from Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
18 June 2009
Also featuring: Jonathan Bate, Janet Clare
The Metaphysical Poets
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Metaphysical poets John Donne, Andrew Marvell and George Herbert, examining their rich and strange metaphors of sex, death and love.
3 July 2008
Also featuring: Thomas Healy, Tom Cain
Pastoral Literature
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss pastoral literature which looks at tensions between nature and art, the real and the ideal, the actual and the mythical.
6 July 2006
Also featuring: Helen Cooper, Laurence Lerner