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 | |
2001-18 | No Judith E Wilson Lectures | |||
2019 | David Edgar | State of Play | D | |
2020-22 | No Judith E Wilson Lectures | |||
2023 | Claudia Rankine | A poetry reading | P |