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Of the Cannibals
and Caliban's music
What is Art?
From Tolstoy to New Historicism - and beyond
O Brave New World
The Tempest - and a look into a deed box
Luddism
in the age of AI
The time of universal peace
Augustanism in Antony and Cleopatra
Plagiarism Revisited
and the Upstart Crow
Serpent of old Nile
Imagery in Antony & Cleopatra
The plagiarist of Jesus College Cambridge?
or "genial coincidence"?
Antony and Cleopatra
The Life of Antony & the Barge at Cydnus
Simon Forman
From Haleking to The Winter's Tale
Othello: from slave to sword
Here are the final two short videos of the Othello module of my lecture course on Shakespeare and his World: the first one explores the pre-history of the character, focusing on his account of how he was taken into slavery by the Ottomans; the second one asks about the meaning of the “sword of Spain” with which he takes his own life.
Julie Taymor's Titus
Hannibal Lecter meets King Lear?