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Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Video from the lectures by Robert Crawford and Derek Gladwin for the Repetition Compulsion theme, March 2015.

Posted in Derek Gladwin, lecture, powerpoint, Repetition Compulsion, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with allegory, Arthur Miller, C20th, cold war, drama, HUAC, Joseph McCarthy, miller, the crucible, tragedy, witch hunt

Shakespeare, The Tempest

Shakespeare, The Tempest

Robert Crawford gives what he calls a somewhat unconventional reading of The Tempest, arguing that we can see it as a directly political play in the sense that it may function as a criticism of King James I.

Posted in lecture, powerpoint, Repetition Compulsion, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with C17th, drama, England, politics, Shakespeare, The Tempest

Antigone

It is not always entirely clear who (if anyone) or what is the tragic hero(ine) in Sophocles’s Antigone, or what exactly is the nature of their tragedy. One might have thought that the tragic figure was the eponymous Antigone herself, … Continue reading →Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb5-2-2013 | Tagged with drama, Jon Beasley-Murray, literature, posthegemony, Sophocles, teaching

Aimé Césaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe, and Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe

Aimé Césaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe, and Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe

Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in lecture, powerpoint, Remake/Remodel, video | Tagged with C20th, Caribbean, Césaire, drama, Haiti, Jon Beasley-Murray, literature, Martinique, Melville, postcolonialism, power, ruins, sovereignty, St Lucia, Walcott, writing

Sophocles, Antigone

Sophocles, Antigone

Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in lecture, Remake/Remodel, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with Classics, drama, Greece, Sophocles, theatre, tragedy

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Audio of lecture by Rob Crawford for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme

Posted in audio, lecture, Monster in the Mirror, Rob Crawford | Tagged with C17th, drama, England, Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Video of lecture by Rob Crawford for the “Borderlines” theme

Posted in Borderlines, lecture, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with C17th, drama, England, Shakespeare

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