Teacher revision video on The Bloody Chamber Collection

This covers contexts that you should know, particularly the literary context and how to write about it. 

I also look at the following areas:

The writer's intentions.

Carter's use of the short story form, the gothic form and fairy tale genre.

I give a brief overview of things to know about in:

The Bloody Chamber, Snow Child, Lady in The House, Mr Lyon and Tiger's Bride and Erl King.

Finally I look at how to consider the collection as a journey. I do not cover the Wolf stories

Ellie Morley, AS Level Woodhouse, student discusses how to achieve grade A success in the summer exams

BBC Radio 4 In Our Time Archive

The In Our Time radio Programmes Archive are now available. Here you will find a wide range of radio programmes covering all the literary periods of your main texts. Hereis one on Oscar Wilde and The Aesthetes. There are also a series of Shakespeare Programmes to access. I have put a link on Twitter to the recent elizabethan Tragedies programme which will be useful for The Tempest and Tis Pity She's a Whore.

Video lectures from the world's leading universities

I have been on Oxford university's English department site writersinspire.org ( we have a link on the blog.) They have some great links to video lectures.See below. The Harvard University one on The Tempest is particularly interesting and you should watch it. Find them here .There is a separate link below for The Tempest Lecture.

UC Berkeley ItunesU
On ItunesU, the University of California at Berkeley has published some audio lectures from a series of UC Berkeley courses given by the hilarious and engaging Professor Charles F. Altieri. Download Itunes free of charge, click on ‘ItunesU’ in the store, and search Altieri.
English 45B: Altieri offers a survey of the western canon, including: Lectures 6 & 7: Jonathan Swift Lecture 10: William Blake Lecture 11: Romanticism Lecture 15 & 16: Jane Austen’s Emma
English 117S: Altieri’s course on Shakespeare, covering Richard II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Winters Tale, and The Tempest
McGill University
Professor Paul Yachnin analyses Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in his podcast The Trial of Shylock.
University of Cambridge
Dr. Raphael Lyne offers his free online audio course, Shakespearean Comedy.
Columbia University
Columbia offers a free online digital exhibition, Shakespeare and the Book.
Harvard University
Professor Marjorie Garber offers an online video/audio course on Shakespeare’s later plays, from Measure for Measure to The Tempest great lecture Shakespeare After All.
MIT
Diana E. Henderson gives a guest lecture at MIT, “Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare“, about adaptations of Shakespeare over time.
University of Chicago
David Bevington talks about Ben Jonson and his project compiling an edition of the Collected Works of Ben Jonson here.
OpenCulture
The Open Culture website offers free online courses on Spenser and Milton and A Survey of Shakespeare’s Plays.

Finding additional resources on itunesU

If you have an itunes account you will find a mass of university and media resources on your chosen texts for coursework and exams. ItunesU is the educational section of itunes and all of the resources are free. Radio programmes and university lectures and podcasts can be downloaded to your devices. A recent search found resources on: Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe's Turn of the Screw, Gatsby, a mass of resources on Shakespeare, T S Eliot's The Wasteland, Chaucer's canterbury Tales. Additionally Language students will find items of interest on language and gender,technology,power, langugae acquisition and change.