Oxford Comma
Chapter by Chapter (Never Let Me Go): Chapter Eighteen
Welcome to the eighteenth video in our chapter by chapter analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go! In this video we'll look at the start of part three and how Ishiguro masterfully makes an extreme situation seem all too relatable....
Curated Video
A Christmas Carol Goes to Court: Charles Dickens in Chancery
National Archive: A Christmas Carol, published 19 December 1843 is one of Charles Dickens’ most beloved works and did much to create our image of an archetypal Victorian Christmas. But its success immediately caused its author trouble,...
Oxford Comma
Chapter by Chapter (Never Let Me Go): Chapter Fourteen
Welcome to the fourteenth video in our chapter by chapter analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go! In this video we'll discover the truth behind the women the group thinks might be Ruth's possible and we'll take a close look at one...
PBS
Jane Eyre 2: Meeting Mr. Rochester
Adapting a much-beloved novel for the screen can be a tricky business. Each media has its own possibilities and limitations. The second PBS Jane Eyre resource in the Masterpiece series asks readers to evaluate how the filmmakers have...
TED-Ed
The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen
More than 15 of Jane Austen's novels have been adapted into films. While viewers enjoy the lush sets, period costumes, and the depictions of eighteenth-century British gentry, what is often lost in these adaptations is Austen's satire. A...
TED-Ed
Is There Any Truth to the King Arthur Legends?
Was he or wasn’t he? We may never know for sure about the origins of King Arthur. But a video that leads middle school and high school viewers through the facts and fictions that have kept King Arthur alive in peoples’ imaginations for...
The Great War
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Father of Lord of The Rings
Best known as the author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien may have used some of his trench warfare experiences to create Middle Earth. While the trilogy is not entirely autobiographical, many scholars agree that...
British Council
Stratford 2: The Lost Years
Before Shakespeare moved to London, he found inspiration in Stratford. Part of a thorough series on Shakespeare, an intriguing video describes the Bard's early years in Stratford when he was newly married and had three young...
British Council
The Tempest 1: Bigger Than Me
William Shakespeare's work speaks to everyone, regardless of race, gender, or social class. A short video discusses key aspects of the Bard and his craft, including his use of iambic pentameter. Activities accompany the video to...
British Council
Stratford 1: Shakespeare, Glove Maker
Shakespeare did not go to university, and that may have been the best decision he ever made. A video, part of the Shakespeare English exercises series, describes the famous playwright's early years in Stratford-Upon-Avon, sharing details...
Crash Course
The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare: Crash Course Theater #13
Believe it or not, Shakespeare wasn't the only British playwright to rise to fame during the Renaissance. Writers other than the Bard make up the content of a video about British theater during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The...
Lit2Go
David Copperfield
With 64 chapters and 368,017 words, Charles Dickens' David Copperfield can prove to be a challenge for young readers. Help them out with a resource that not only provides the complete text but an audio version as well.
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Charles Dickens?
Prisons, orphanages, slums, workhouses. Such are the settings of Charles Dickens' novels. Why would anyone (except for literature teachers, perhaps) want to read these tales? Find out why with a short video that explores the allure of...
The School of Life
James Joyce
James Joyce was not the first writer to use stream of consciousness, but the sensory experience in such novels as Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was revolutionary in the literary world. Learn more...
The School of Life
Charles Dickens
How much do you know about the life of Charles Dickens? A thorough video discusses the author's professional successes and private failures with engaging animation and informative narration.
The School of Life
Jane Austen
Jane Austen wrote about strong women, social boundaries, and relationship dynamics in the early 19th century to educate her readers about the state of humanity. Learn more about the themes woven throughout her works,...
The School of Life
Virginia Woolf
Libraries may have been locked to women for centuries, but writers like Virginia Woolf were instrumental in opening the doors for other female authors. Learn more about Woolf's place in the modernist age and her voice in the literary...
Macat
An Introduction to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own
If you've ever wondered why the majority of historical writers are male rather than female, Virginia Woolf may have an answer for you. A video analysis of A Room of One's Own details Woolf's argument about women's stifled role in...
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature # 401: 1984 by George Orwell, Part 1
In which John Green returns for a dystopian new season of Crash Course Literature! He starts with George Orwell's classic look at the totalitarian state that could be in post-war England. Winston Smith is under the eye of Big Brother and...
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature #402: 1984 by George Orwell, Part 2
In this episode, John Green continues discussing George Orwell's 1984. Today he talks about what the novel 1984 has to say about what some have called today's surveillance society. We'll also look at the idea that language can be used as...
Other
Libri Vox: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Swift's famous satire is available as an MP3 file from this resource. You can also download a zip file of the entire work, or look at an e-text. [00:27:15]
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature 207: Reader, It's Jane Eyre
Crash Course Literature 207: Reader, It's Jane Eyre in this [13:12] video series of Crash Course Literature uses lively verbal explanations accompanied by entertaining visuals with a host who provides a multilayered insight into the...
BBC
Bbc Radio 4: In Our Time: Geoffrey Chaucer
Audio of the BBC Radio 4 program "In Our Time." This forty-three minute episode is about the Medieval British author Geoffrey Chaucer. Experts discuss his work and what we know about his life. Listening requires RealPlayer.
BBC
Bbc Radio 4: In Our Time: Siegfried Sassoon
Audio of the BBC Radio 4 program "In Our Time." This forty-three minute episode is about Siegfried Sassoon's poetry. Experts discuss his life as well as his work. Listening requires RealPlayer.