Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature
Episode 430
How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne L…
2 years, 5 months ago
HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft
Episode 429
How Macbeth reflects the anxieties and explanations surrounding witchcraft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe.
2 years, 6 months ago
HoP 427 - Brave New World - Shakespeare’s Tempest and Colonialism
Episode 428
Can Shakespeare’s Tempest be read as a reflection on the English encounter with the peoples of the Americas?
2 years, 6 months ago
HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism
Episode 427
How the Renaissance turn towards individual identity is reflected in Shakespeare's most famous play.
2 years, 7 months ago
HoP 425 - Patrick Gray on Shakespeare
Episode 426
We're joined by Patrick Gray to discuss Shakespeare's knowledge of philosophy, his ethics, and his influence on such thinkers as Hegel.
2 years, 8 months ago
HoP 424 - Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? - William Shakespeare
Episode 425
How should we approach Shakespeare’s plays as philosophical texts? We take as examples skepticism and politics in Othello, King Lear, and Julius Caes…
2 years, 8 months ago
HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
Episode 424
We begin to look at Elizabethan literature, as Sidney argues that poetry is superior to philosophy, and philosophy is put to use in Spenser’s "Fairie…
2 years, 9 months ago
HoP 422 - The World’s Law - Richard Hooker
Episode 423
Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law.
2 years, 9 months ago
HoP 421 - With Such Perfection Govern - English Political Thought
Episode 421
The evolution of ideas about kingship and the role of the “three estates” in 15th and 16th century England, with a focus on John Fortescue and Thomas…
2 years, 10 months ago
HoP 420 - No Place Will Please Me So - Thomas More
Episode 422
What is the message of the famous, but elusive, work "Utopia", and how can it be squared with the life of its author?
2 years, 10 months ago