Sex, Politics (and Religion)? Contemporary Plays and Classic Revivals in British Theatre A consideration of two waves of British theatre between the...
How to be a Shakespearean Atheist This lecture will explore how the sixteenth century found ways of distancing itself from religion.
The Christian reticence of W H Auden Auden was arguably the most prodigiously talented of the great...
The challenge of atheist literature: Beckett, Pullman and McEwan Some works of literature today are written from a consciously...
Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets' These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
Creating new species: the future of man and his dominion over other animals My lectures have shown that while most human behaviours are...