VIRGINIA PROGRAMME AT OXFORD 2023
St Anne’s College, 26 June to 5 August
WEEK 1
Monday 26 June Arrival
8.00pm Opening meeting
Tuesday 27 June
9.30 College Library
10.00 Meeting with Tutors
11.00 Introduction / Dobson
3.00 Bodleian Library (leave St Anne’s lodge 2.30 pm sharp)
Wednesday 28 July 9.30 The Elizabethan Court / Gunn
Thursday 29 June 9.30 Dr Faustus / E. Smith
Friday 30 June TUTORIALS
Saturday 1 July 10.30 Excursion to Hampton Court Palace and to the Globe Theatre London to see an evening performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Return midnight.
WEEK 2
Monday 3 July 9.30 Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Pitcher
Tuesday 4 July 5.45 From Page to Stage / Hutchison
Wednesday 5 July 1.00 Excursion to Stratford-upon-Avon to see a performance (7.15) of The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It
3.30 Shakespeare, As You Like It (at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon) / Dobson
Thursday 6 July 9.30 The Crisis of the 1590s? Historical and Literary Perspectives / Gajda
Friday 7 July TUTORIALS
WEEK 3
Monday 10 July 9.30 Smashing Images: ‘the Sacrament of Forgetfulness’ in the English Reformation / MacCulloch
Tuesday 11 July 9.30 Shakespeare, King Lear / Ricks
Wednesday 12 July 5.00 Plague in Early Modern Culture / Jenner
Thursday 13 July TUTORIALS
Friday 14 July NO LECTURES OR TUTORIALS: LONG WEEKEND
WEEK 4
Monday 17 July NO LECTURES OR TUTORIALS: LONG WEEKEND
Tuesday 18 July 9.30 James VI and I / Caldari
Wednesday 19 July 9.30 Art and Religious Politics in Early Stuart England [lecture in Lincoln College Chapel] / McCullough
5.00 John Donne / N. Smith
Thursday 20 July 9.30 Magic and Witchcraft / Thomas
Friday 21 July TUTORIALS
WEEK 5
Monday 24 July 9.30 The Growth of London / Archer
Tuesday 25 July 9.30 Shakespeare, Macbeth / Gazzard
1.30 Excursion to Globe Theatre, London, to see a performance (7.30) of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Return midnight.
Wednesday 26 July 9.30 Conspiracy Theories in post-Reformation England / Lake
Thursday 27 July 9.30 ‘Such Place, such men, such Language and such Ware’: the Theatre of London Fairs / Stern
Friday 28 July TUTORIALS
WEEK 6
Monday 31 July 9.30 Milton and Marvell / Southcombe
Tuesday 1 August 9.30 Discovering Charlies I / Cust
Wednesday 2 August 9.30 Oliver Cromwell / Tapsell
Thursday 3 August 9.30 Conclusion / Redworth
Friday 4 August TUTORIALS
[7.00 Final Party]
Saturday 5 August Depart by midday