Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series aims to show the variety of different ways we might understand Shakespeare, the kinds of evidence that might be used to strengthen our critical analysis, and, above all, the enjoyable and unavoidable fact that Shakespeare's plays tend to generate our questions rather than answer them.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Henry IV part 1 | 2011-11-16 | ||
| The Comedy of Errors | 2012-01-23 | ||
| Richard III | 2012-01-25 | ||
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre | 2012-02-01 | ||
| King John | 2012-02-10 | ||
| King Lear | 2012-02-22 | ||
| As You Like It | 2012-10-23 | ||
| Hamlet | 2012-10-23 | ||
| Much Ado About Nothing | 2012-10-30 | ||
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 2012-11-05 | ||
| Taming of the Shrew | 2012-11-09 | ||
| The Merchant of Venice | 2012-11-20 |