Lecture Summaries
Paradise Lost IX & 10: Narrative Structure and Characterisation 45 minutes – 1hour
This lecture gives students the skills to understand the structure of the text for themselves and provides contexts to understand and a vocabulary to write about character; more than anything the lecture delights in the sounds of Milton’s verse and shows his characters’ voices as modern and accessible.
Rossetti: Form and Subject. 45 minutes – 1hour
This lecture focusing on “Remember” and Goblin Market offers a detailed analysis of the sonnet form and of the language of these poems; it explores the contexts of both poems and how Rossetti’s patterns of language and sounds shape her meanings.
The Duchess of Malfi:
Language Patterns and Key Imagery 45 minutes – 1hour
This lecture explores in detail how Webster’s intricate patterns of language and imagery shape meanings in the play and includes an evaluation of contexts and critical views.
Women in Hamlet 45 minutes – 1hour
This lecture helps students to see a pattern in Ophelia, Gertrude and Hecuba’s experience of regime change; offers a closely detailed examination of key speeches; and, explores contexts of production and reception.