Why should we study Shakespeare?

Dr Francis Leneghan of St Cross College, Oxford, discusses his current research around Beowulf and proposes why we should still study Old English Literature. 

Further information about the educational resource: http://writersinspire.org. 

Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost. 

Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost. Originally published in the Approaching Shakespeare series. 

We learn phrases from Shakespeare that are still used today. 

Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona.