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Fellow of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton. Tolkien Society Education Officer. Facilitator for the Tolkien, Shakespeare, and Poetry Reading Groups hosted by the Central Library Southampton. Contact for Tolkien-related matters: educationATtolkiensocietyDOTorg. For all other enquiries: lynnevdaATclaraDOTcoDOTuk

Current Research Projects

  • Sixteenth-century politics in Shakespeare's The Tempest
  • The Significance of the Matter of England in The Lord of the Rings. Associated with this and with the course on Romances see the link to Bevis of Hampton
  • Poetry and its influence in The Lord of the Rings

Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture

For more information about the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, including graduate seminars and conferences, see www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/

See also http://www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/research/fellows.html

Sunday, 12 July 2009

English in the Afternoon

Women in Medieval English Literature, the latest course in this series of short introductions to selected aspects of English Literature has been completed, with an average of 9 people attending each session. We covered a range of literary modes, including Letters, 'autobiography', and drama, as well as Chaucer's poetry, to discover how varied the representations of women could be during the Middle Ages.

The next course in the series will begin on 8th October. The topic is: English Drama before Shakespeare. We will be looking at a number of plays from 'mystery', or Corpus Christi drama, a selection of morality plays, and some of the Tudor Interludes we have not covered in the previous course.

Details will be available in the Southampton Central Library in September, or from the contact email on this site.
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