Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
This playlist brings together six courses on Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. The first three focus on the play directly, while the remaining three look at the broader literary, historical and cultural contexts of Jacobean tragedy.
What this playlist includes:
51 lectures across 6 courses.
All resources designed and delivered by university academics and researchers.
Courses and Lectures
1. Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Prof. Lisa Hopkins
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam University
1.1. The Gothic – 08:23
1.2. Setting – 10:07
1.3. Religion – 10:22
1.4. Women – 10:03
1.5. Imagery – 09:35
2. Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Prof. John Lennard
Independent Scholar
Independent Scholar
2.1. John Webster and the Duchess of Malfi – 08:23
2.2. A Study in Brothers: The Cardinal and Ferdinand – 09:06
2.3. A Marriage in a Chamber: Antonio and the Duchess – 11:38
2.4. The Intelligencer: Bosola – 10:00
2.5. Staging Webster – 12:18
3. Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Prof. Helen Smith
York University
York University
3.1. Women in Renaissance Drama – 10:19
3.2. The Duchess of Malfi – 10:38
3.3. Bodies and Spaces – 12:48
3.4. Secrets and Secretaries – 11:40
3.5. Critical History – 11:46
4. Tragedy: A Complete History
Prof. John Lennard
Independent Scholar
Independent Scholar
4.1. Greeks 1: Stage, Function, Chorus, Masks – 11:00
4.2. Greeks 2: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides – 17:41
4.3. Greeks 3: Aristotle and Later Theory – 18:51
4.4. Romans: Seneca and the Circus Maximus – 15:27
4.5. Tragedy and God in the Middle Ages – 11:31
4.6. The Renaissance 1: The Jacobithine Theatre and ... – 15:09
4.7. The Renaissance 2: Shakespeare – 12:26
4.8. Renaissance 3: Besides Shakespeare: Marlowe, We... – 14:03
4.9. Restoration Tragedy and the Proscenium Arch – 13:19
4.10. Romanticism and Tragedy – 10:43
4.11. Tragedy and Technology 1: The Novel – 14:47
4.12. Tragedy and Technology 2: The Camera – 12:23
4.13. Ibsen and Naturalism – 13:08
4.14. Tragedy and Technology 3: Warfare, Poetry and M... – 14:16
4.15. Modernist Tragedy 1: Brecht and Faulkner – 16:57
4.16. Tragedy and the Sho'ah – 18:04
4.17. Modernist Tragedy 2: Lorca and Beckett – 14:32
4.18. Tragedy and Technology 4: Film – 18:05
4.19. Tragedy in Non-Western Cultures: Khushwant Sing... – 16:15
4.20. Tragedy Today – 16:16
5. The Supernatural: A Complete History
Prof. Nick Groom
Exeter University
Exeter University
5.1. Ballads – 11:16
5.2. Revenge Tragedy – 09:37
5.3. Early Vampires – 10:10
5.4. Victorian Vampires – 11:25
5.5. The Uncanny – 19:11
5.6. The Victorian Uncanny – 07:41
5.7. English Ghosts – 14:28
5.8. The American Supernatural – 11:41
6. Seneca and Early Modern Drama
Dr Helen Slaney
University of Oxford
University of Oxford
6.1. Shakespeare's Sources – 08:17
6.2. Seneca – 14:36
6.3. Elizabethan Seneca – 12:50
6.4. Tamburlaine and The Spanish Tragedy – 14:12
6.5. Revenge Tragedy – 11:57
6.6. Seneca in University Theatre – 13:09
6.7. The Roman History Play – 12:36
6.8. Restoration Seneca – 14:16
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