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Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)

 

Literature, Shakespeare and Film 

If you are looking to follow a particular subject stream while you are studying with us, see below a list of courses in the same stream across the four weeks, showing possible combinations by week.

10-session courses running over one week are marked * and 10-session courses running over two weeks are marked **

Week 1 9:00-10:30am 

W15Am23 William Blake and William Wordsworth: the strange, the new, the revolutionary in English poetry Simon Browne 5 sessions
W15Am24 Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie 5 sessions
W15Am25 British Crime Writing: Conan Doyle, Sayers, Allingham, Hill, & Rankin Dr John Lennard 5 sessions

Week 1 1:30-3:00pm   

W110Pm02 From dramatic text to performance: the making of Modern Drama** Professor Michael Earley 10 sessions
W110Pm03 Jane Austen: Romance, rebellion and rewards** Dr Jenny Bavidge 10 sessions
W15Pm21 Harry Potter: Twenty years on Dr John Lennard 5 sessions
W15Pm22 The shape of ideas: thinking with Beckett, Melville, and Shakespeare Andy Wimbush 5 sessions

Week 2 9:00-10:30am 

W25Am24 Nature Poetry: romanticism to climate emergency Dr Jenny Bavidge 5 sessions
W25Am25 EM Forster in Italy: A Room With a View Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie 5 sessions
W25Am26 African-American Crime Writing: Douglass, Himes, Bambara, & Mosley Dr John Lennard 5 sessions

Week 2 1:30-3:00pm   

W210Pm02 From dramatic text to performance: the making of Modern Drama** Professor Michael Earley 10 sessions
W210Pm03 Jane Austen: Romance, rebellion and rewards** Dr Jenny Bavidge 10 sessions
W25Pm23 Shakespeare: the Forest and the Sea Dr John Lennard 5 sessions

Week 3 9:00-10:30am 

W310Am02 Shakespeare: fusions of Comedy and Tragedy** Dr John Lennard 10 sessions
W35Am21 Power and wonder in Shakespeare's Tempest Dr Paul Suttie 5 sessions
W35Am22 An introduction to the Bloomsbury Group Claire Nicholson 5 sessions
W35Am23 Forms of happiness: hedonism, individuality, and virtue in 18th-century literature Dr Alex Hobday 5 sessions

Week 3 1:30-3:00pm   

W310Pm01 Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in performance** Vivien Heilbron 10 sessions
W35Pm21 Milton’s Adam and Eve: the human factor in Paradise Lost Dr Paul Suttie 5 sessions
W35Pm22 Shakespeare’s Sonnets: an Introduction Clive Wilmer 5 sessions

Week 4 9:00-10:30am 

W410Am02 Shakespeare: fusions of Comedy and Tragedy** Dr John Lennard 10 sessions
W45Am22 Virginia Woolf in the 1920s: Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse Claire Nicholson 5 sessions
W45Am23 Performing Shakespeare's sonnets Vivien Heilbron 5 sessions

Week 4 1:30-3:00pm

W410Pm01 Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in performance** Vivien Heilbron 10 sessions
W45Pm22 Close Readings: ten great poems of the period 1880-1980 Clive Wilmer 5 sessions