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CR Episode 310: Sense and Sensibility, Part I
The panel discusses the first seventeen chapters of Sense and Sensibility, with special attention given to contemporary inheritance law, the characte…
2 months, 1 week ago
CR Episode 309: The Vanity of Human Wishes
The panel discusses Dr. Johnson's imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal, with its message of caution about advanced age and the temptations of aca…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
CR Episode 308: The Hobbit, Part V
The panel discusses the closing chapters—the battles against Smaug and between the five armies, and the journey home—with special attention to the in…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
CR Episode 307: The Hobbit, Part IV
The panel discusses the party's arrival in and departure from Lake-Town, and their arrival at and infiltration of the Lonely Mountain, with special a…
3 months ago
CR Episode 306: The Hobbit, Part III
The panel reads chapters 8 and 9, with special attention to the episodic structure of the narrative, the maturation of Bilbo and his rising stature a…
3 months, 1 week ago
CR Episode 305: The Hobbit, Part II
The panel discusses chapters 5–7, with examination of Tolkien's sources and the chronology of its composition, discussion about the different phases …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
CR Episode 304: The Hobbit, Part I
The panel discusses the first four chapters of The Hobbit with special attention to the development of the story as a text, its features connecting i…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
CR Episode 303: Romeo and Juliet, Act V
The panel closes out Romeo and Juliet, and the year 2025, with a discussion of Friar Laurence's cowardly culpability, Romeo's impassioned importunity…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
CR Episode 302: Romeo and Juliet, Act IV
The panel discusses the fourth act, with attention to the self-serving plan of Friar Laurence, who imperils the two lovers by avoiding more rational …
4 months ago
CR Episode 301: Romeo and Juliet, Act III
The panel discusses the third act—the 'beginning of woe'—when the drama shifts decidedly from comedy to tragedy with the departure of Mercutio and Ju…
4 months, 1 week ago