Education

Shakespeare and the Brain

Oxford University

A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and...

Episodes

5 episodes

Extracts from Shakespeare, read by Roland Oliver (actor): Richard II Act V, Scene 5; Macbeth Act II, Scene 1; Henry IV Part 2, Act IV, Scene 3

Roland (an actor and alumnus of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) concludes the ‘Shakespeare and the Brain’ event by reading relevant ex...

25:16Dec 12, 2016

The Hunter Heartbeat Method – Kelly Hunter (actor, director and educator)

Kelly gives an outline of some of her work using sensory drama games, using Shakespeare’s works, to interact and play with children with aut...

36:16Dec 12, 2016

Shakespeare’s Memory – Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (Director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience, University of Leicester)

Rodrigo’s talk references the writing of Jorge Luis Borges, particularly his short stories 'Shakespeare’s Memory' and 'Funes the Memorious',...

44:10Dec 12, 2016

Shakespeare as Observer and Psychologist – Professor Paul Matthews (Fellow by Special Election, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford; Edmond and Lily Safra Chair and Head of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London)

Paul focuses on some of the questions that Shakespeare was asking about the mind, and how the same sorts of issues are approached now by neu...

33:13Dec 12, 2016

Shakespeare, Mind and World – Dr Tom MacFaul (Lecturer in English, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)

Tom discusses how Shakespeare’s age thought about thinking. In particular, he looks at the transformative power of thought and the idea in s...

37:51Dec 12, 2016