Pirandello on Film
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
A showing of two sections, Male di luna and La giara from the film Kaos (1984) by the Taviani brothers. There will be an introduction, then the first showing (approx. 40 minutes), an interval for discussion, and then the last part (about the same length).
Supernatural Vengeance in Hamlet and Macbeth
Part of the Oxford Shakespeare Jubilee in April 2016.
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
£2 entry. Refreshments available.
Supernatural Vengeance in Hamlet and Macbeth
Part of the Oxford Shakespeare Jubilee in April 2016.
King’s Arms, Oxford
The King’s Arms apparently hosted the debut performance of Hamlet outside of London.
£6 entry – tickets from WeGotTickets.
Three Angles on Greece
Three novelists attempt to show us what Modern Greece really is.
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
£2 admission • Refreshments available
Blake in Lambeth
No.13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, was the residence of William Blake and his wife Catherine during the most creative and productive period of his life…
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
With additional guest speaker Stephen Micalef.
£2 entry • Refreshments available
Blake in Lambeth
No.13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, was the residence of William Blake and his wife Catherine during the most creative and productive period of his life…
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
£2 entry • Refreshments available
Cioran and Camus
Dark Sun, Bright Shadow
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
£2 entry • Refreshments available
Translating Pirandello: Babble, Drivel and Scribble
Luigi Pirandello is probably Italy’s most renowned playwright. Yet in almost 100 years, few translations into English have done justice to his work.
Simon, whose PhD thesis specialized in Italian drama of the period, explains why…
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
£2 entry • Refreshments available
Utopia, Dystopia and Mr Smith
Erewhon (Samuel Butler) • Looking Backward (Edward Bellamy) • 1984 (George Orwell) • Island (Aldous Huxley)
Is utopia confined to fiction, and dystopia the reality we should expect?
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
Four Unforgettable Women – Four Forgotten Novels
Four forgotten novels: To Walk the Night (William Sloane); The Well Beloved (Thomas Hardy); L’Ève Future (Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam); L’Atlantide (Pierre Benoit). Four not-so-forgotten women.
Femmes Fatales and Gothic Monsters • Male authors’ bonkers ideas about women, and some not so bonkers…
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford