Cele mai bune English Literature podcast-uri (2024)

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More than the Dark Lady: Aemilia Lanyer's "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" 33:02

10d ago33:02

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Send us a Text Message. Today we look at Aemelia Lanyer's pioneering and influential work, "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" from 1611's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow me on Insta…

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Fair Youths and Dark Ladies: Shakespeare's Sonnets 47:19

25d ago47:19

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Send us a Text Message. For our final episode focusing on Shakespeare, we look at his sonnets, arguably the most famous collection of lyric poems in the language. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow me on Instagr…

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"You taught me language": Shakespeare's The Tempest 40:08

1M ago40:08

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Send us a Text Message. For our (probably) final episode on Shakespeare's plays, we sail through The Tempest, a late romance which has attracted historical and psychoanalytical interpretations, but stands out for many readers as perhaps a play in which a version of Shakespeare himself appears as the protagonist. Audio clip from The Tempest ; 2004 N…

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The Felix Culpa: George Herbert's "Easter Wings" 10:58

2M ago10:58

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Send us a Text Message. To mark the Easter holiday, we return to George Herbert, Jacobean poet and priest, and his most famous work, the pattern poem "Easter Wings." Here's a link to an image of the poem: https://clinicalpsychreading.blogspot.com/2016/03/easter-wings-george-herbert-15931633.html Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate th…

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Shakespeare: The Narrative Poems 45:32

2M ago45:32

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Send us a Text Message. While most people know Shakespeare as a playwright, he saw himself as a poet in the quite traditional sense. Today, we'll look at his two major narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. clip from "Mrs. Robinson" by Paul Simon; perf. by Simon and Garfunkel. 1968. Taken from We Got Good at It: A Wrecking Crew …

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Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Lear and the Absurdity of Suffering 43:18

3M ago43:18

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Send us a Text Message. The Tragedy of King Lear, while considered by many as Shakespeare's greatest play, is also his most devastating. In this episode, we consider what Lear has to say about the meaning of human suffering. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! …

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Shakespeare's Problematic Plays 47:14

4M ago47:14

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we look at how our current concerns with identity politics intersects with those of Shakespeare's plays which portray sexist, racist, or anti-Semitic material. Fair warning: this episode will deal with language and tropes that some may find uncomfortable Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the…

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Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth: A Love Story 1:02:10

4M ago1:02:10

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Send us a Text Message. Is Shakespeare's darkest tragedy a cautionary tale about ambition? a bit of Jacobean mythmaking? Or is it the portrait of a deeply committed marriage gone catastrophically wrong? With apologies for all the appalling accents . . . . Performance Clip: Macbeth with Orson Welles, Fay Bainter, and the Mercury Acting Co. Mercury T…

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Who is There?: Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet 1:00:46

5M ago1:00:46

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Send us a Text Message. Shakespeare's Hamlet has not been out of production for over four centuries and its profound examination of the human condition continues to capture the hearts and minds of people the world over. Join me in Elsinore as we think about what some have called the greatest drama in history -- perhaps even the greatest literary ac…

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The First Anglican Christmas Carol 15:08

5M ago15:08

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Send us a Text Message. Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year! Here's a little subcast episode on poet Nahum Tate's "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks," the first Christmas carol sanctioned by the Anglican Church around the turn of the 18th century. Recording: "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night" THE B.B.C. CHORUS; Berkeley Mason Write…

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Honor, Ethics, and Assassination: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar 40:13

5M ago40:13

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Send us a Text Message. Is political violence ever justified? Who decides? And what ethical systems can evaluate the justice of such acts? Today, we look at the ethics driving the characters of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen…

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Happy 400th! Shakespeare's First Folio 23:31

6M ago23:31

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the Subcast! On today's bonus episode, I give a little poddie-training on perhaps the most significant publishing event in English literature: the presentation of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen…

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"I am a woman; when I think I must speak": Shakespeare's Rosalind and Beatrice 40:14

6M ago40:14

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we'll look at two women who are generally regarded as among the greatest female characters ever written: Rosalind from Shakespeare's As You Like It and Beatrice from his Much Ado About Nothing. Their wisdom, intelligence, and emotional depth challenge Renaissance gender assumptions and inaugurate a line of d…

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Happy Thanksgiving! George Herbert's "Gratefulness" 7:11

6M ago7:11

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Send us a Text Message. 17th-century poet and priest George Herbert offers a playful poem reminding us to strive for gratefulness. I am, myself, very grateful for all the support you all have offered me. Thank you so much! Additional sound: "Mahna Mahna" from The Muppet Show (1977). Downloaded from Internet Archive. Support the Show. Please like, s…

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Shakespeare's Henriad 36:37

6M ago36:37

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Send us a Text Message. In today's discussion, we take a look at the character of Henry, Prince of Wales, who will become King Henry V in the group of plays including Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, and Henry V, sometimes called "The Henriad." Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen.…

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Happy Halloween from Herrick's "The Hag"! 10:35

7M ago10:35

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Send us a Text Message. Trick or treat! Here's a bone-us episode on Robert Herrick's "The Hag," about a witch's night ride with the Devil! Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, a…

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Despair and Damnation: Marlowe's The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus 37:25

7M ago37:25

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Send us a Text Message. Here's a good one for the Halloweeny season: Christopher Marlowe's most famous play. A scholar sells his soul to the Devil for ultimate knowledge and power! Correction: In this episode, I misidentify the author of "The Devil and Tom Walker" as Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is, of course, Washington Irving. Extra musical selection …

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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy of Sonnet-Lovers 31:32

7M ago31:32

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Send us a Text Message. Does Romeo and Juliet even need an introduction? Well, this time on the poddie, we'll look at the play's tragic lovers through the lens of the Renaissance sonnet, how that poem style's postures shapes the action, making character fate. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, …

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Concord of this Discord: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream 34:50

8M ago34:50

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Send us a Text Message. Shssshh! Drift off into Shakespeare's most rhymy and least rational play! Today, it's The Dream! Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, and YouTube. If you…

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History, History Plays, and Historiography: Shakespeare's Richard III 38:50

8M ago38:50

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Send us a Text Message. We're here! Finally, our first Shakespeare play episode. Today, we'll look at The Tragical History of King Richard III. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Tik T…

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Spillin' the Tea on Marlowe and Kyd 14:48

9M ago14:48

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Send us a Text Message. You may be surprised at how the rivalry between these early Elizabethan theatrical superstars played out! Betrayal, torture, assassination; this is tabloid-worthy stuff! Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature…

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"Violence Prevails": Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy 37:07

9M ago37:07

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Send us a Text Message. Oooh, you're in for a bloody one today, dear listener! Perhaps the most popular revenge tragedy in the 16th-century: Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. Wildly infamous, wildly influential, wildly excessive -- just wild! It inaugurates the fashion for revenge tragedy that will dominate theater for the next decades, and paves the way for …

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The Sum of Glory: Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2 31:51

9M ago31:51

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Send us a Text Message. Perhaps the first great play of the Elizabethan stage, Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great is relentless and ruthless. How are we to understand a bloody conqueror and tyrant? What does Marlowe mean by this spectacle of his success? We'll look at those questions today! Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcas…

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An Overview of Renaissance Theatre 18:26

10M ago18:26

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Send us a Text Message. A bonus episode on the Subcast looks at the early modern English theatre, the culture and atmosphere of Elizabethan playgoing, as a prologue to our multi-episode discussion of the great English dramatists of the age, and for all time! Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, o…

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A Still Queer Voice: Richard Barnfield's "The Affectionate Shepherd" 26:48

10M ago26:48

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Send us a Text Message. This week on the poddie, we discuss a lesser known -- but by no means a lesser quality -- Elizabethan pastoral by Richard Barnfield called "The Affectionate Shepherd." In sophisticated, learned verse, Barnfield highlights the homoerotic elements (not always so) latent in classical and early modern bucolics, which I think a h…

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Live with Me, Be My Love: Pastoral Eclogues 27:09

10M ago27:09

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Send us a Text Message. If you listen to much modern American country music, you notice that many of the songs conjure up an idealized vision of small-town rural America, distinct from (and presumably superior to) life in urban areas. The fact that many of these songs are written in large cities like Nashville points to a kind of constructed nostal…

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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: The Legend of the Redcrosse Knight 32:19

10M ago32:19

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Send us a Text Message. Today we'll look at the most famous tale from Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene: Book I "The Legend of the Redcrosse Knight." We'll discuss its allegorical and neoplatonic dimensions while doing a quick drive-by of a passage from Mutabilitie Cantos. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spot…

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American Independence: Tudor Roots 11:42

11M ago11:42

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Send us a Text Message. As Americans mark Independence Day, I wanted to out that the shift in Western thinking that eventually produced a document like the Declaration of Independence began with a doctrine of the 16th century Protestant Reformation and its influence on Tudor political thought. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the …

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The Perfect Pattern of a Poet: Edmund Spenser's Lyrics 34:53

11M ago34:53

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Send us a Text Message. Some say he is the first real poet of the English Renaissance. Whatever that may mean, Edmund Spenser certainly looms large in 16th century English literature. In this first of two episodes, we will look at his paradoxically traditional and innovative lyric poetry, especially The Shepheardes Calendar, Amoretti, and "Epithala…

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The Queen's Two Bodies: Elizabeth I's Poetry 16:09

11M ago16:09

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Send us a Text Message. While the political history of Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603) has been well-rehearsed, fewer listeners may be aware that she was also a devilishly accomplished poet and rhetorician. In this episode of the Subcast, we look at her most important poems -- "When I was fair and young," "On Monsieur's Departure," and "The Doubt …

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Defending Poetry: Sir Philip Sidney 31:06

11M ago31:06

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Send us a Text Message. Though he spent only a brief period as a courtier of Elizabeth I, Sir Philip certainly cut a dashing figure. He also dashed off one of the most influential works of literary theory in English. And he was quite the dab hand at versifying. Today, we look at Sidney's Defence of Poesie, "Ye Goatherd Gods" from Arcadia, and sonne…

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Nowhereland: Sir Thomas More's Utopia 27:54

12M ago27:54

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Send us a Text Message. Sir Thomas More's 1516 book inaugurated a new genre of English literature: the utopian fantasy. But More's own life, combined with the text's irony and narrative layering, make this a more complex prescription than you might think! Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or w…

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On Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey 15:01

12M ago15:01

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Send us a Text Message. Today we do a quick look at some of the poetry of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, who is credited with the development of the English sonnet and of blank verse. We'll look at "The Night Piece," "Love that Doth Reign," and “Alas, so all things now do hold their peace." Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the …

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Venus, Venison, and Venom: The Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt 27:02

12M ago27:02

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Send us a Text Message. Firmly in the Tudor Renaissance now, literati! Today, we'll look at Sir Thomas Wyatt, the first major poet of Henry VIII's court. He brought back the iambic pentameter line and developed the English sonnet. We'll look particularly at "They Flee from Me" and "Whoso List to Hunt." Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and …

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John Skelton: The Last Medieval (or First Renaissance) Poet 27:50

1y ago27:50

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Send us a Text Message. As we move our discussions toward 16th century Tudor literature, we look at a key transitional figure: John Skelton. His virtuosic versifying introduces the English Renaissance and we'll hear "To Mistress Margaret Hussey" and take a deep look at "The Book of Phillip Sparrow." Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rat…

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For the Coronation of King Charles III 10:24

1y ago10:24

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Send us a Text Message. To mark the coronation of Charles III, I present to you a 15th century coronation poem written for Henry VI by John Lydgate. God Save the King! Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow me on In…

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The Mysteries and the Miller's Tale (The Canterbury Tales, Part 3.75 [?]) 17:20

1y ago17:20

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Send us a Text Message. Let's have a look at perhaps why Chaucer, in his "The Miller's Tale," alludes so often to the incipient mystery plays of the late 14th century. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow me on In…

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The Birth of English Drama: Mystery and Morality 33:33

1y ago33:33

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Send us a Text Message. If, as it's often said, William Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the English -- perhaps, indeed, in any -- language, then where did his most famous genre come from? Today, we look at the very earliest English plays, the birth of English theatre. We will consider "The Second Shepherd's Play," "The York Crucifixion," and …

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Weal and Woe: Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur (The Matter of Arthur, Part 4) 24:21

1y ago24:21

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Send us a Text Message. Sir Thomas Malory's hernia-making masterpiece Le Morte D'Arthur is the subject of part 4 of our sporadic mini-series The Matter of Arthur. Because it's such a massive work, and because its versions of the Arthur legends are the most well-known, this episode will largely focus on Malory's deft use of the Lancelot and Guinever…

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William Dunbar's "Done is the Battle": An Easter Hymn 12:37

1y ago12:37

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Send us a Text Message. Here's a nice little egg in your Easter basket! I look at William Dunbar's Easter hymn "Done is the Battle" from around the year 1500. I hope you enjoy the show, and I hope your Easter, Passover, Ramadan, and spring rites are happy and blessed! Cheers! Additional Music: Consort for Brass by Kevin MacLeod Support the Show. Pl…

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The Great Vowel Movement 10:33

1y ago10:33

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Send us a Text Message. Today on the Subcast there's a brief explainer on the Great Vowel Shift, the most significant change in English since the Norman Invasion. We're beginning to move into Modern English! Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classiceng…

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Medieval Mysticism: The Book of Showings and The Book of Margery Kempe 36:36

1y ago36:36

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Send us a Text Message. Today we look at the literature of female mysticism in the English 14th and 15th centuries, particularly the landmark texts Dame Julian of Norwich's Book of Showings and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe, which are not only profound religious statements but the earliest voices of women in the English language. Specia…

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Three Doctors and a Razor: Medieval English Philosophers 20:05

1y ago20:05

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Send us a Text Message. A Subcast episode looking at four of the most influential philosophers working in England during the Middle Ages: Anselm of Canterbury, Roger Bacon, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: clas…

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Keep the Faith: Moral John Gower 31:21

1y ago31:21

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Send us a Text Message. Today we take a look at John Gower, who was once considered the "Father of English Poetry," but who is now largely unknown outside English departments. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow …

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Mock Chivalry: "The Tournament of Tottenham" 11:30

1y ago11:30

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Send us a Text Message. A CEL Subcast episode! Today we look at a comic poem from the first half of the 15th century: "The Tournament of Tottenham." But who's the joke on? On Hold Music: "Lounge" by Serge Quadrado Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: clas…

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Love and Loss in Anglo-Saxon Poetry 13:26

1y ago13:26

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Send us a Text Message. A Subcast episode! Let's read two Old English poems that treat the female experience in Anglo-Saxon England: "Wulf and Eadwacer" and "The Wife's Lament" -- the only surviving OE poems written in a woman's voice! Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. …

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Revolting Peasants: 1381 and All That 21:07

1y ago21:07

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Send us a Text Message. What do peasants, poets, and priests write about when a toxic slurry of starvation, deprivation, and taxation spill over into the largest popular insurrection in English history? Find out as we look at the literature surrounding the Great Rising of 1381. With regards to Contemptua X. Smugly. Support the Show. Please like, su…

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The Endless Knot: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (The Matter of Arthur, Part 3) 29:07

1+ y ago29:07

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Send us a Text Message. Today we look at Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an anonymous narrative poem from the late 14th century Midlands. The Gawain Poet is a gifted technician and craftsman as well as storyteller whose technique interlaces disparate strands into an elegant pattern -- imagine a Celtic knot, the monastic Gospel illuminations, or th…

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"Noble Preaching": The Wife, The Lollards, and Chaucer's Retraction (The Canterbury Tales Part 3.5) 10:05

1+ y ago10:05

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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever wondered if Chaucer's satirical broadsides against the Church could get him into trouble? Well, seems he may have thought so . . . . or maybe not. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.co…

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"Beaten for a Book": Chaucer's Wife of Bath (The Canterbury Tales Part 3) 33:08

1+ y ago33:08

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Send us a Text Message. Alisoun, the Wife of Bath, is perhaps the most psychologically complex character in all of medieval English literature. Bawdy, rebellious, haughty, and rambunctious, the Wife smashes the patriarchy . . . or does she? Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you lis…

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