English Talks at MCS

If you are interested in taking English at university, or just really like Shakespeare or Steinbeck, the following talks at MCS might be useful for you. Please let me know if you would like to go.

Tuesday 8th November (4.30-5.30 -  Dr Lynn Robson, Regent's Park College, University of Oxford - 'Meetings With Hamlet'.   Lynn is going to talk about her long term interest in the play and how she's experienced different version of since first reading it in Sixth Form.  She's a great speaker and very approachable and friendly with school pupils.  She'll do a Shakespeare Q+A at the end.

Monday 21st November (4-5pm) - Dr Martin Wiggins, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford - 'Hamlet and Prayer'.  Martin is going to talk pupils though one scene of the play in detail showing pupils how they can use contextual knowledge and close reading skills to open it up.  He's a powerhouse on the 16th Century and knows pretty much everything about Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre (not joking).  We're also planning a Q+A.

Monday 5th December (4-5pm) - Dr Tessa Roynon, The Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford - 'Revisiting Steinbeck'.  Tessa is a late C19 and early C20 specialist on American literature and is re-reading The Grapes of Wrath for us.  She is going to talk about the experience of re-reading the novel for the first time in many years and discussing the aspects that strike her as significant.  She will be drawing links to the wider U.S literary context.  Again, if time there will be a Q+A.