
Prof. John Lennard
Independent Scholar
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Bristol, and educated at Oxford and St Louis, Dr John Lennard has taught English, American, and Commonwealth Literature in Cambridge, London, and Jamaica over more than twenty years. He has written two widely used textbooks (on poetry and drama) and monographs on Shakespeare, Paul Scott, Nabokov, and Faulkner, as well as two collections of essays on contemporary genre writers in crime, science fiction and fantasy, and romance. Enthusiastic, discursive, widely knowledgeable, and a demon for punctuation (on which he has also published extensively), he has been a popular Summer School Course Leader and lecturer for the Institute of Continuing Education since 1992.
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Shakespeare: Hamlet
All courses by Prof. John Lennard

Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Shakespeare: King Lear
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Shakespeare: King Lear
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Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Shakespeare: Othello
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Shakespeare: Othello
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Webster: The White Devil
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Webster: The White Devil
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Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Middleton: The Revenger's Tragedy
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Middleton: The Revenger's Tragedy
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 15 lectures
Poetry: How to Read and Analyse Poetry
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Poetry: How to Read and Analyse Poetry
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 5 lectures
Ford: 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Ford: 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • Classics & Ancient History • 20 lectures
Tragedy: A Complete History
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Tragedy: A Complete History
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 10 lectures
Walcott: Omeros
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Walcott: Omeros
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar

Course • English Literature • 10 lectures
Shakespeare: Macbeth
Prof. John Lennard, Independent Scholar
Shakespeare: Macbeth
Prof. John LennardIndependent Scholar