The Essay Episodes Available now
Shakespeare 400: Freedom of Speech or 'Nothing' - King Lear and Contemporary India—Shakespeare 400
4/5 Preti Taneja considers Shakespeare's King Lear as a lens through which to view India today
Shakespeare 400: Wolf All? - Shakespeare and Food in Renaissance England—Shakespeare 400
3/5 Joan Fitzpatrick explains her new research on what people ate in Shakepeare's England.
Shakespeare 400: Undiscovered Countries - Shakespeare and the Nation—Shakespeare 400
2/5 James Loxley explores what Shakespeare's plays say about questions of national identity.
Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare and the Suffragettes—Shakespeare 400
1/5 How Shakespeare's heroines helped transform Victorian schoolgirls into Edwardian activists
Minds at War: Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie—Minds at War: Series 3
5/5 Playwright and academic Elizabeth Kuti explores Sean O'Casey's play The Silver Tassie.
Minds at War: Father Browne's Photograph of a Wounded Soldier—Minds at War: Series 3
4/5 Photographer John D McHugh explores one of the war photos of Father Francis Browne.
Minds at War: Francis Ledwidge's poem O'Connell Street—Minds at War: Series 3
3/5 Gerald Dawe discusses the little-known poet Francis Ledwidge and his poem O'Connell Street
Minds at War: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September—Minds at War: Series 3
2/5 Dr Heather Jones of the LSE explores Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September.
Minds at War: James Joyce's Ulysses—Minds at War: Series 3
1/5 Writer Fintan O'Toole reflects on James Joyce's influential novel Ulysses.
Thomas Lynch - Whence and Whither: Some Thoughts on Uteri, on Wombs—A Body of Essays: Series 2
5/5 Michigan-based undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the uterus.
