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The Classic English Literature Podcast

by M. G. McDonough
97 EPISODES
May 18
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The Ambiguity of Wit: William Wycherly's The Country Wife
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On The Battle of the Boyne
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Tea and Revolution: Nahum Tate's "Panacea"
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Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Blurring History and Romance
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Dear Diary: Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, and Navel-Gazing as History
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A Parody of Pomposity: Samuel Butler's Hudibras
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Forward to the Past: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
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Nasty, Brutish, and Naturally Free: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and the Social Contract
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Early Science Fiction: Lunar Geese and Blazing Worlds
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A Garden and a Coy Mistress: Andrew Marvell
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The Earliest Tales of Robin Hood (Out of Time Episode 2)
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To Justify the Ways of God: John Milton's Paradise Lost (episode 2)
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Sexy Satan: John Milton's Paradise Lost (episode 1)
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A Minor Announcement and a Major Request
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"Pastures New": John Milton's "Lycidas"
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Christmas on Trial!
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Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil Wars
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Thanksgiving in Plain Style
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Carpe Diem!: The Cavalier Poets
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"Death the Leveller" by James Shirley
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Cant, Costume, and Cutpurses: Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl
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"The test of experience": The Philosophy of Sir Francis Bacon
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Vikings Are A Thing! The Scandinavian Influence on English (Out of Time Episode 1)
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Will the Real Hamlet Please Stand Up
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An Unintended Episode: English Country House Poems
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John Webster's Sensational The Duchess of Malfi
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Flesh and Spirit: The Writing of John Donne
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"Drink to me only with thine eyes": Ben Jonson's Lyrics
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English Comes to America
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"A Pretty Kind of Game": Ben Jonson's Volpone and The Alchemist
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Humorous Humors: Ben Jonson's Early Comedies
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The Bible in English
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More than the Dark Lady: Aemilia Lanyer's "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women"
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Fair Youths and Dark Ladies: Shakespeare's Sonnets
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"You taught me language": Shakespeare's The Tempest
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The Felix Culpa: George Herbert's "Easter Wings"
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Shakespeare: The Narrative Poems
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Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Lear and the Absurdity of Suffering
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Shakespeare's Problematic Plays
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Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth: A Love Story
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Who is There?: Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet
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The First Anglican Christmas Carol
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Honor, Ethics, and Assassination: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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Happy 400th! Shakespeare's First Folio
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"I am a woman; when I think I must speak": Shakespeare's Rosalind and Beatrice
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Happy Thanksgiving! George Herbert's "Gratefulness"
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Shakespeare's Henriad
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Happy Halloween from Herrick's "The Hag"!
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Despair and Damnation: Marlowe's The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy of Sonnet-Lovers
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