A critical examination of Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” speech, arguing that it concerns the ethics of revenge rather than suicide, and exploring whether it is a genuine soliloquy or a performance for hidden listeners.
An analysis of Hamlet’s To Be or Not to Be soliloquy, focusing on its ethical arguments about revenge, mortality, and the paralysis of indecision.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s To Autumn, including a combined reading and analysis, a standalone analysis, and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, including a combined reading and analysis and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Odes, covering the Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and To Autumn.
A reading of the anonymous medieval lyric Thou Wanderest in this False World, a religious meditation on mortality, vanity, and the transience of earthly life.
A combined reading and analysis of the anonymous medieval lyric Wanne Mine Eyhnen Misten, a short contemplation on death and mortality written in Middle English.
A combined reading and analysis of Yeats’s Mad as the Mist and Snow, exploring its themes of aging, madness, and the passing of time in the context of his later poetry.
A reading of Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress, one of the finest carpe diem poems in English, urging the beloved to seize the pleasures of life before time runs out.
A combined reading and analysis of Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress, examining its carpe diem argument, witty conceits, and the urgency of love in the face of mortality.