The Department of Politics host LSE Professor, Christopher R Hughes

Did Adam and Eve experience sexual pleasure, and if so how much?

Although literature can be seen as another cultural product competing for ideological supremacy, ultimately it is the beauty of literary language which provides pleasure and allows us to meditate on our particular 21st century human experience

Henry V is a rousing play fully of memorable and stirring lines. But it is not simply a play that celebrates war and heroics in war: it is also a play that questions war and the right conduct of war

This lecture explores how and why it could be that masculinities based on violence and personal status proved so resilient as new forms of public politics became established in the thirteenth and fourteenth century

In the early sixteenth century, the eve of May Day was conventionally a night of revelry for artisans and labourers in the City of London. In 1517, the early summer celebrations turned to violence...

Peter Robinson reads from The Constitutionals: A Fiction (2019) and discusses the praxis of adaptation.

Why does Hamlet have such an extraordinary hold on our cultural imagination?

Come along to this free talk and explore some of The Tempest's strangeness and some of its wonder through looking at its textual detail with Professor Judith Buchanan

Come along to this free talk and explore some of Twelfth Night's textual detail, and its history in print and performance with Professor Helen Smith

A lead-up event to York Walls Festival 2019, taking place in August. By Barry Crump of the University of York's Centre for Lifelong Learning