LITERATURE
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SHAKESPEARE’S CONTEMPORARIES: THOMAS KYD’S ‘THE SPANISH TRAGEDY’
With its angry ghost, villains, tragic heroine, grieving fathers, murders and madness, The Spanish Tragedy was the most popular and well-known revenge tragedy until Hamlet, influencing a whole generation of later playwrights. Join us to explore one of the most exciting plays of the early Elizabethan period. Residential: £305 Non-residential: £220
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SUNDAY LECTURE: THE WORLD OF THEATRE IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME
SUNDAY LECTURE: THE WORLD OF THEATRE IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME
What was the theatre world like in Shakespeare’s time? How did this context affect the form and content of his plays and those of his contemporaries? Clare explores the impact of the theatre buildings, acting companies, personalities and audiences of Elizabethan & Jacobean London, together with the regulations and censorship to which they were subject,
SUNDAY LECTURE: ‘THE WORLD OF THEATRE IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME’
SUNDAY LECTURE: ‘THE WORLD OF THEATRE IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME’
What was the theatre world like in Shakespeare’s time? How did this context affect the form and content of his plays and those of his contemporaries? Clare explores the impact of the theatre buildings, acting companies, personalities and audiences of Elizabethan & Jacobean London, together with the regulations and censorship to which they were subject,
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PHILOSOPHY AND NATURE: DEEP ECOLOGY
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu. This course will take a gently philosophical approach to the relationship between humanity and nature. Exploring the thought-provoking ideas of Arne Naess and ‘Deep Ecology’, Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ and the Daoist worldview of harmony with nature, we will consider how these concepts might
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“I HACK AND HAMMER AT THE HANDIWORK OF VERSE” AN EXPLORATION OF NORMAN NICHOLSON’S POETRY
Norman Nicholson (1914-1987) was the foremost Cumbrian poet of his period and was honoured with several awards, including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (1977). Proud to be a regional poet, Nicholson’s work in many genres was nationally and internationally known and respected. Indeed, as his Guardian obituary notes, ‘some critics considered him the best