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This series brings together lectures given by members of Oxford’s Faculty of English as Open Day taster lectures or as introductory lectures for undergraduates. The series covers a diverse range of topics, drawing on the Faculty’s wide-ranging research into English Language and Literature.
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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 12 | Creative Commons | Theatre, 1660-1760 - The Arrival of the Actress | David Taylor on the arrival of female actors on the stage. | David Taylor | 14 Mar 2019 |
| 11 | Creative Commons | Theatre, 1660-1760 - Restoration and Change | David Taylor lectures on the reopening of the theatres in the 1660s. | David Taylor | 14 Mar 2019 |
| 10 | Creative Commons | Race and Empire, 1660-1760 | Ruth Scobie lectures on race and empire, 1660-1760. | Ruth Scobie | 14 Mar 2019 |
| 9 | Creative Commons | Drama and the Theatre, 1660-1760 | Abigail Williams lectures on the staging of Restoration drama. | Abigail Williams | 14 Mar 2019 |
| 8 | Creative Commons | Literature and Gender, 1660-1760 | Kathleen Keown considers representations of gender in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. | Kathleen Keown | 07 Mar 2019 |
| 7 | Creative Commons | Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760 | Carly Watson outlines the material forms in which literary texts circulated between 1660 and 1760. | Carly Watson | 07 Mar 2019 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | What is a Literary Period? | Clare Bucknell considers how we define a literary period. | Clare Bucknell | 07 Mar 2019 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | Nineteenth-Century Stuff - Dickens, Paperwork and Paper Sorrows | Sophie Ratcliffe investigates the material culture of the Victorians, using examples from Charles Dickens. | Sophie Ratcliffe | 07 Mar 2019 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | What is a War Poem? | Kate McLoughlin explores how we might define a war poem. | Kate McLoughlin | 07 Mar 2019 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | Diaries as Literature - The Case of Virginia Woolf | Michael Whitworth considers whether diaries are literature, looking particularly at the diaries of Virginia Woolf. | Michael Whitworth | 07 Mar 2019 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Character in Modern Drama | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr investigates 'character' in Modern Drama | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr | 07 Mar 2019 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | Brilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams; or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial | Sos Eltis looks at Oscar Wilde’s 1895 trial. | Sos Eltis | 04 Mar 2019 |