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Annual Judith E Wilson Lectures on Poetry and Drama

Year	Lecturer	Title	Drama/ Poetry
1957-58	Sir Tyrone Guthrie	The Illusion of Illusion	D
1858-59	Mr Louis MacNeice	Lyric into Drama	D
1959-60	Mr Peter Hall	The Actor’s Use of his Text	D
1960-61	Dr Glynne Wickham	Poets, Dramatists and Playmakers	D/P
1961-62	Dr Denis Donoghue	Modern Drama and the Life of Dialogue	D
1962-63	Mr John Barton	The Modern Actor and the Speaking of Shakespeare’s Verse	D/P
1963-64	Mr Robert Speaight	Shakespeare’s use of Soliloquy	P
1964-65	Mr John Arden	The Didactic Drama	D
1965-66	Mr E Martin Browne (assisted by Henzie Raeburn)	The making of T S Eliot’s The Cocktail Party (with readings)	D/P
1966-67	Miss Ann Jellicoe	Some Unconscious Influences in the Theatre	D
1967-68	Mr Tony Church	The Return of the Actor-Manager	D
1968-69	Mr Bamber Gascoinge	Some Seventeenth-Century Spectaculars	D
1969-70	Dame Edith Evans	A Poetry Reading	P
1970-71	M Jean Jacquot	‘What’s Hecuba to us?’	P
1971-72	Mr Terry Hands	Shakespeare: the Word and the Stage	D
1972-73	Prof Joseph Kerman	Opera as Drama	D
1973-74	Mr Tony Robertson	A Play’s the Thing	D
1974-75	Mr C Walter Hodges	Virtuous Fabrick: an argument for re-constructing the Globe Playhouse	D
1975-76	Mr Edward Bond	How to Write Something	D
1976-77	Prof J R Northam	‘On a firm foundation’ – translating Ibsen	D
1977-78	Mr Trevor Griffiths	Writing for and against Television	D
1978-79	Miss Jane Howell	Towards a Popular Theatre	D
1978-79	Mr Seamus Heaney	A Near Myth: Reflections on the Irish Literary Revival	D/P
1979-80	Mr Prof Geoffrey Hill	‘What Devil has got into John Ransom’	P
1980-81	Prof Dr Robert Weimann	Comic Versions of Utopia in Shakespeare	D/P
1980-81	Rev R S Thomas	Man & Poet	P
1980-81	Mr Jon Silkin	Isaac Rosenberg: the particularist East-West	P
1981-82	Mr B Trukan	Some Aspects of Teaching Theatre East-West	D
1981-82	Mr P Redgrove	The Witch Who Loves Us: Peter Redgrove reads and reflects on his recent poetry.	P
1982-83	Mr Michael Longley	The Stereophonic Nightmare.	D
1983-84	Mr Mike Alfreds	What the theatre isn’t: getting down to basics.	D
1983-84	Prof E Morgan	Recyclilng, Mosaic and Collage in Poetry	P
1984-85	Prof Andrew Gurr	Shakespeare’s Globe: audiences then and now.	D
1984-85	Dr Sorley Maclean	Extremes in Scottish Gaelic Poetry	P
1985-86	Mr Michael Pennington	The Interim is Mine	D
1985-86	Mr James Fenton	Poets, War Poets and War	P
1986-87	Mr John Lahr	Clowning and Revenge	D
1986-87	Mr A Thwaite	Using the past: Contemporary poets and History	P
1987-88	Mr John Willet	Brecht at the End of the Century	D
1987-88	Mr Douglas Dunn	Language and Liberty: Scottish Poets in the Twentieth Century	P
1988-89	Mr Michael Schmidt	The Common Reader	P
1988-89	Prof Muriel Bradbrook	The Rose Theatre	D
1989-90	No Judith E Wilson Lectures
1990-91	Prof Seamus Deane	Slouching Towards Bethlehem, reading Modernist poems	P
1990-91	Mr John Peter	.Plato, the text, and the overnight critic	D
1991-92	Griff Rhys Jones	Playing Comedy	D
1991-92	Prof Donald Davie	Poetry and Christian Doctrine	P
1992-93	Prof C Middleton	On the Mental Image	P
1993-94	Mr Tom Phillips	The Writing on the Wall	D/P
1994-95	Mr Douglas Oliver	Poetry’s Subject A Commentary and Performance	P
1994-95	Ms Fiona Shaw	She who plays the King	D
1995-96	Mr John Fuegi	How to make women writers disappear: a user’s manual	D
1996-97	Ms Janet Suzman	South Africa in ‘Othello’	D
1997	Mr Ariel Dorfman	From Santiago to Broadway ‘ The Dilemmas of Writing Political Drama in a Globalized World.	D
1998	Eaven Boland	‘The Lost Poet’	P
1999	No Judith E Wilson Lectures
2000	Nicholas Hytner	What Makes Theatre Theatre	D

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Annual Judith E Wilson Lectures on Poetry and Drama