The malice of the forces of darkness and the arrival of four books and the latest LRB have caused The Liberation of Jerusalem to be temporarily postponed… Firstly, Doubt’s Boundless Sea, Skepticism & Faith in the Renaissance, by Don Cameron Allen, arrived early last week. I ordered this book because [Read more…]
Title: Special Lecture On Goethe’s Visit To Naples, 1987 Location: Gion Community Centre Link out: Click here Introduction In 1786, the great German writer Johann von Goethe, already rich and famous as the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), the 37-year-old Goethe set off [Read more…]
Title: Aspects of E. M. Forster Location: Aster Plaza, Hiroshima Date: 18th November 2010 Time: 13:30- 15:00 Hosted by: “Sekai O Miru Kai” Description: I will be giving a talk on E. M. Forster and his novels to the Hiroshima based international culture study group, “Sekai O Miru Kai”. I [Read more…]
A Lecture on Shakespeare and Machiavelli, delivered to Sekai O Miru Kai Aster Plaza Hiroshima April 2009 1. The Villainous Machiavel of the English Stage Eighty-five years after his death in 1527, Niccolò Machiavelli made his first appearance on the London stage in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s play, The [Read more…]
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