The Classic English Literature Podcast
By M. G. McDonough
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Where rhyme gets its reason!In a historical survey of English literature, I take a personal and philosophical approach to the major texts of the tradition in order to not only situate the poems, prose, and plays in their own contexts, but also to show their relevance to our own. This show is for the general listener: as a teacher of high school literature and philosophy, I am less than a scholar but more than a buff. I hope to edify and entertain!
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Fair Youths and Dark Ladies: Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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"You taught me language": Shakespeare's The Tempest
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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The Felix Culpa: George Herbert's "Easter Wings"
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Shakespeare: The Narrative Poems
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Lear and the Absurdity of Suffering
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Shakespeare's Problematic Plays
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth: A Love Story
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Who is There?: Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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The First Anglican Christmas Carol
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Honor, Ethics, and Assassination: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Happy 400th! Shakespeare's First Folio
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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"I am a woman; when I think I must speak": Shakespeare's Rosalind and Beatrice
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Happy Thanksgiving! George Herbert's "Gratefulness"
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Henriad
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Happy Halloween from Herrick's "The Hag"!
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Despair and Damnation: Marlowe's The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy of Sonnet-Lovers
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Concord of this Discord: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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History, History Plays, and Historiography: Shakespeare's Richard III
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Spillin' the Tea on Marlowe and Kyd
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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"Violence Prevails": Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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The Sum of Glory: Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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An Overview of Renaissance Theatre
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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A Still Queer Voice: Richard Barnfield's "The Affectionate Shepherd"
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Live with Me, Be My Love: Pastoral Eclogues
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: The Legend of the Redcrosse Knight
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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American Independence: Tudor Roots
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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The Perfect Pattern of a Poet: Edmund Spenser's Lyrics
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The Queen's Two Bodies: Elizabeth I's Poetry
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Defending Poetry: Sir Philip Sidney
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Nowhereland: Sir Thomas More's Utopia
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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On Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey
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May 27, 2023 |
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Venus, Venison, and Venom: The Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt
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May 20, 2023 |
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John Skelton: The Last Medieval (or First Renaissance) Poet
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May 13, 2023 |
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For the Coronation of King Charles III
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May 06, 2023 |
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The Mysteries and the Miller's Tale (The Canterbury Tales, Part 3.75 [?])
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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The Birth of English Drama: Mystery and Morality
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Weal and Woe: Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur (The Matter of Arthur, Part 4)
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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William Dunbar's "Done is the Battle": An Easter Hymn
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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The Great Vowel Movement
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Medieval Mysticism: The Book of Showings and The Book of Margery Kempe
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Three Doctors and a Razor: Medieval English Philosophers
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Keep the Faith: Moral John Gower
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Mock Chivalry: "The Tournament of Tottenham"
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Love and Loss in Anglo-Saxon Poetry
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Revolting Peasants: 1381 and All That
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Endless Knot: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (The Matter of Arthur, Part 3)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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"Noble Preaching": The Wife, The Lollards, and Chaucer's Retraction (The Canterbury Tales Part 3.5)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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"Beaten for a Book": Chaucer's Wife of Bath (The Canterbury Tales Part 3)
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Going Blackberrying: Swearing in "The Pardoner's Tale" (The Canterbury Tales Part 2.5)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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"A Wholly Vicious Man": Chaucer's Pardoner (The Canterbury Tales Part 2)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Mary's Christmas!
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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"Pilgrims were they all": Chaucer's "General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales (The Canterbury Tales Part 1)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Encountering the Divine: Medieval Dream Vision Poetry
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Avian Agitation: "The Owl and the Nightingale"
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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"Wise, Worthy, and Belle": Marie de France's "Lanval" (The Matter of Arthur, Part 2)
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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The King Arthur of Pseudo-History (The Matter of Arthur, Part 1)
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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1066 and All That: Anglo-Norman English
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Black and White and Read All Over: The Exeter Book Riddles
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Those Who Wander: The Anglo-Saxon Elegies
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Wherefore Beowulf?
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Why Think About Literature?
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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The Coming of the Anglo-Saxons
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Hello and Welcome!
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Jul 25, 2022 |