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Theory & criticism

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Part of an online exhibition created by OU Associate Lecturer Brendan Jackson.

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Clip 20: AA306 Cleopatra
Duration: 00:04:20
Date: 2000
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Clip 21: AA306 Value of Shakespeare
Duration: 00:00:47
Date: 2000
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The next clip (Clip 20) concerns Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra, in which we can see cross-fertilisation between a variety of schools of criticism. Here is an amalgam of feminist, post-colonialist and historicist critical perspectives.

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In this final clip (Clip 21) Stephen Greenblatt pays tribute to Shakespeare’s contemporary relevance followed by Kiernan Ryan’s very apt allusion to William Morris.

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