4 Public Lectures on the subject of Shakespeare funded by Oxford University Press and the English Faculty, University of Oxford, delivered over a two-week period.

Lecture I: Are those circumstances really necessary? Romeo and Juliet Lecture II: "Imaginary work": Lucrece's circumstances Lecture III: Motivated uncertainty: Shakespeare's circumstantial dramaturgy Lecture IV: "The innocent Sleepe": tragic emotion and politics in Macbeth