Season 2 Week 9 - w/b 9th March
Please click the link below to see the timetable for the week:
documents/weekly-timetables-2014-5/weekly-summary-season-2-week-9.docx
Notices
Film studies
Please note that Film Studies - Films of Hitchcock with Elayne Chaplin on Friday 13 March will be held in Room 3, 3rd floor and NOT in the Green Room.
`How Paintings Work’ lecture rescheduled
Narbi Price’s talk on Saturday 14th March has been cancelled and will now take place on Saturday 25th April – the first Saturday of Season 3.
If you would like to come to this talk please sign up as soon as possible by contacting the Explore office, either by sending an e mail headed `How Paintings Work' booking or by coming into the office in person.
Prior reading essential
Tuesday 10th March 10.30 - 12.00 Pamela Woof
Poems from the last 3 collections of Seamus Heaney:
Electric Light (2001)
In particular, ' At Toomebridge', 'Electric Light', 'Known World' and 'The Real Names'
District and Circle (2006)
In particular, 'The Turnip Snedder', 'Blackbird of Glanmore', 'District and Circle' and 'Anything Can Happen'
Human Chain (2010)
In particular, 'Chanson d'Aventure', 'A Kite for Aibhin' and 'Human Chain'
It will be helpful, though it is not essential, to read these poems in advance. Some texts will be provided.
Tuesday 10th March 12.30 – 13.30 Pamela Woof
Shakespeare II: More Sonnets
A selection will be made during the session but will concentrate on sonnets 52, 73, 64, 65,81,94 and 116. The poems are brief enough to be read aloud before discussion. Please bring a text if you can.
The sonnets can be accessed online at
http://www.triggs.djvu.org/djvu-editions.com/SHAKESPEARE/SONNETS/Download.pdf
Prior reading helpful
Monday 9th March 10.30 – 12.00 Marie Addyman
If you would like to do some additional background reading the following texts are recommended:
A.G. Dickens, The English Reformation (1964; various reprints).
For a modern overview of the whole European scene, see D. MacCulloch's long and detailed Reformation: Europe's House Divided (2003; Penguin, 2004).
There is also a VSI by Peter Marshall, The Reformation (2009).
