Shakespeare: Macbeth
This playlist brings together six courses on Shakespeare's Macbeth. The first three provide a detailed analysis of individual scenes and key themes in the play, while the other three look at the broader contexts of the supernatural in literature and the genre of tragedy.
What this playlist includes:
64 lectures across 6 courses.
All resources designed and delivered by university academics and researchers.
Courses and Lectures
1. Shakespeare: Macbeth
Prof. John McRae
Nottingham University
Nottingham University
1.1. Introduction – 21:28
1.2. Act 1, Scenes 1-2 – 08:22
1.3. Act 1, Scene 3 – 13:44
1.4. Act 1, Scene 4 – 05:35
1.5. Act 1, Scene 5 – 10:20
1.6. Act 1, Scenes 6-7 – 19:15
1.7. Act 2, Scene 1 – 07:15
1.8. Act 2, Scene 2 – 05:34
1.9. Act 2, Scenes 3-4 – 12:12
1.10. Act 3, Scene 1 – 08:06
1.11. Act 3, Scenes 2-3 – 05:51
1.12. Act 3, Scene 4 – 08:02
1.13. Act 3, Scenes 5-6 and Act 4, Scene 1 – 10:14
1.14. Act 4, Scene 1 – 09:16
1.15. Act 4, Scene 2 – 05:03
1.16. Act 4, Scene 3 – 12:06
1.17. Act 5, Scenes 1-5 – 10:35
1.18. Act 5, Scenes 5-8 – 10:03
1.19. Act 5, Scene 9 – 04:33
2. Shakespeare: Macbeth
Prof. Lisa Hopkins
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam University
2.1. Time – 11:10
2.2. Topicality – 09:20
2.3. Fate and Free Will – 08:27
2.4. Women – 10:38
2.5. Sleep and Dreams – 07:04
2.6. Language and Imagery – 09:22
3. Shakespeare: Macbeth
Mr Stephen Siddall
Independent Scholar
Independent Scholar
3.1. Macbeth's Appeal: Then and Now – 11:35
3.2. The Supernatural – 12:27
3.3. Women – 11:41
3.4. Kingship – 08:40
3.5. Directors' Choices – 12:03
4. Shakespeare and Witchcraft
Prof. Diane Purkiss
University of Oxford
University of Oxford
4.1. Why Were Witches in Macbeth? – 04:35
4.2. Witches In Shakespeare's Time – 05:09
4.3. Witches and Kitchens – 05:26
4.4. Witches and the Sea – 15:39
4.5. Witches and Bodies – 11:27
4.6. Lady Macbeth – 10:03
5. The Supernatural: A Complete History
Prof. Nick Groom
Exeter University
Exeter University
5.1. Ballads – 11:16
5.2. Revenge Tragedy – 09:37
5.3. Early Vampires – 10:10
5.4. Victorian Vampires – 11:25
5.5. The Uncanny – 19:11
5.6. The Victorian Uncanny – 07:41
5.7. English Ghosts – 14:28
5.8. The American Supernatural – 11:41
6. Tragedy: A Complete History
Prof. John Lennard
Independent Scholar
Independent Scholar
6.1. Greeks 1: Stage, Function, Chorus, Masks – 11:00
6.2. Greeks 2: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides – 17:41
6.3. Greeks 3: Aristotle and Later Theory – 18:51
6.4. Romans: Seneca and the Circus Maximus – 15:27
6.5. Tragedy and God in the Middle Ages – 11:31
6.6. The Renaissance 1: The Jacobithine Theatre and ... – 15:09
6.7. The Renaissance 2: Shakespeare – 12:26
6.8. Renaissance 3: Besides Shakespeare: Marlowe, We... – 14:03
6.9. Restoration Tragedy and the Proscenium Arch – 13:19
6.10. Romanticism and Tragedy – 10:43
6.11. Tragedy and Technology 1: The Novel – 14:47
6.12. Tragedy and Technology 2: The Camera – 12:23
6.13. Ibsen and Naturalism – 13:08
6.14. Tragedy and Technology 3: Warfare, Poetry and M... – 14:16
6.15. Modernist Tragedy 1: Brecht and Faulkner – 16:57
6.16. Tragedy and the Sho'ah – 18:04
6.17. Modernist Tragedy 2: Lorca and Beckett – 14:32
6.18. Tragedy and Technology 4: Film – 18:05
6.19. Tragedy in Non-Western Cultures: Khushwant Sing... – 16:15
6.20. Tragedy Today – 16:16
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