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APRIL 2009
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Shakespeare’s Names
2pm / Festival Room 1, Christ Church / £7.50
Laurie Maguire believes that names matter in
Shakespeare’s plays - and that playing with names
is a serious business. The focus is Shakespeare -
in particular, case-studies of Romeo and Juliet;
Comedy of Errors; The Taming of the Shrew; A
Midsummer Night’s Dream; All’s Well that Ends
Well; and Troilus and Cressida - but she also
shows what Shakespeare inherited and where the
topic developed after him.
Sponsored by Felicity Bryan Literary Agency
Louis de Bernières
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and Zulfu Livaneli
Chaired by Abdou Filali-Ansary
Eyes Wide Open: the Narrative
Dance of History as Fiction
2pm / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary, Director of The Aga Khan
University in the UK, will chair a discussion with novelists
Louis de Bernières (Birds without Wings), and Zulfu Livaneli
(Bliss Mutlunuk). Both their novels re-investigate
the past, in relation to the paradoxical diversity of
contemporary Turkish identity.
Topics to be explored include the different ways in which
“official” history is re-told and remembered, with
reference to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, examining
why previously harmonious cosmopolitan communities,
when confronted with nationalism, religious absolutism
and utopianism, degenerate into violence, hatred
and warfare.
In association with
The Aga Khan University
Kelly Grovier and
Bernard O’Donoghue
Chaired by Jem Poster
Two Poets
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2pm / Mckenna Room, Christ Church / £7.50
Leading Irish poet Bernard O’Donoghue, whose literary
and academic career has been conducted in Oxford
since the mid-1960s, will be joining forces with the
American poet Kelly Grovier.
Kelly Grovier has published widely on the English
Romantic poets, particularly William Wordsworth
and John Keats. Last year Carcanet Press published
his own collection of poems, A Lens in the Palm.
Bernard O’Donoghue’s job teaching Mediaeval Literature
has resulted in a number of scholarly works, notably
his anthology The Courtly Love Tradition. He began
writing poetry in 1979, after the death of his mother
and the birth of his first child. Such human occasions,
the centrality of love and its necessary opposite, death,
have remained consistent themes in his poetry.
Kelly Grovier and Bernard O’Donoghue will be reading
a selection of their poetry. Chaired by novelist and
poet Jem Poster.
Cathedral Cloisters - Christ Church
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