VPO Schedule 2017 (PDF)
VIRGINIA PROGRAMME AT OXFORD 2017 (DRAFT)
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
2.30 Bodleian Library (leave St Anne’s lodge 2 pm sharp)
5.45 From Page to Stage / Hutchison
Wednesday 28 July 9.30 The Elizabethan Court / Gunn
Thursday 29 June 9.30 Dr Faustus / Smith
Friday 30 June TUTORIALS
[6.00 Drinks Party]
Saturday 1 July 11.00 Excursion to Hampton Court Palace and to the Globe Theatre London to see an evening performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Return midnight.
WEEK 2
Monday 3 July 9.30 Shakespeare, Twelfth Night / Duncan-Jones
Tuesday 4 July 9.30 The Crisis of the 1590s? Historical and Literary Perspectives / Gajda
Wednesday 5 July 9.30 Shakespeare and the History Plays / Lake
5.00 Shakespeare, King Lear / Ricks
[6.00 Drinks Party]
Thursday 6 July 9.30 Oxford Architecture / Ashdown
Friday 7 July TUTORIALS
WEEK 3
Monday 10 July 9.30 Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra / Pitcher
4.00 Theatre trip to Stratford-upon-Avon to see a performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Return midnight.
Tuesday 11 July 9.30 Smashing Images: ‘the Sacrament of Forgetfulness’ in the English Reformation / MacCulloch
Wednesday 12 July 9.30 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
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 ‘Such Place, such men, such Language and such Ware’: the Theatre of London Fairs / Stern
Wednesday 26 July 9.30 Shakespeare, Julius Caesar / Dobson
1.30 Excursion to Stratford-upon-Avon to see a performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Return midnight.
Thursday 27 July 5.00 John Donne / N. Smith
Friday 28 July TUTORIALS
WEEK 6
Monday 31 July 9.30 Milton and Marvell / Southcombe
Tuesday 1 August 9.30 Archbishop Laud / Fincham
5.00 The Causes of the English War / Holmes
[6.00 Drinks Party]
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