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CR Episode 320: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II
The panel discusses the second act and the moment in the play when the plans of the characters begin to go astray due to mischance, with special atte…
13 hours ago
CR Episode 319: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I
The panel discusses the setting and form of the play, before discussing the first act and its complicated love quadrangle, with attention given to lo…
1 week ago
CR Episode 318: Paradise Regained, Book IV
The panel discusThe panel discusses the end of the second temptation, with Satan's exasperation and the exhaustion of his intellect, followed by his …
2 weeks ago
CR Episode 317: Paradise Regained, Book III
The panel discusses the continuation of the second temptation in the desert, with Satan's various presentations of worldly power, and the explication…
3 weeks ago
CR Episode 316: Paradise Regained, Book II
The panel discusses the second book, with special attention to the newest appearance of Satan, his confusion, and the difference between his first te…
4 weeks ago
CR Episode 315: Paradise Regained, Book I
The panel discusses the first book of Paradise Regained, the sequel (or continuation) of Paradise Lost, with special attention paid to the particular…
1 month ago
CR Episode 314: W.H. Auden and Mediaevalism
The panel is joined by a special guest, the poet and author Aaron Poochigian, to discuss three medievally-inflected poems by Auden: "Lady Weeping at …
1 month, 1 week ago
CR Episode 313: Sense and Sensibility, Part IV
The panel discusses the closing chapters of the novel, with special attention to the quasi-reformation of Willoughby's character, the depths of villa…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
CR Episode 312: Sense and Sensibility, Part III
The panel discusses chapters 30–39, with the unveiling of secrets including Edward and Lucy's engagement, and Colonel Brandon's connexion to Willough…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
CR Episode 311: Sense and Sensibility, Part II
The panel discusses chapters 18–29, with a omparison of the relationship of Elinore and Edward versus that of Marianne and Willoughby, a discussion o…
2 months ago