1957-58
- Lecturer: Sir Tyrone Guthrie
- Title: The Illusion of Illusion
- Drama/Poetry: D
1858-59
- Lecturer: Mr Louis MacNeice
- Title: Lyric into Drama
- Drama/Poetry: D
1959-60
- Lecturer: Mr Peter Hall
- Title: The Actor’s Use of his Text
- Drama/Poetry: D
1960-61
- Lecturer: Dr Glynne Wickham
- Title: Poets, Dramatists and Playmakers
- Drama/Poetry: D/P
1961-62
- Lecturer: Dr Denis Donoghue
- Title: Modern Drama and the Life of Dialogue
- Drama/Poetry: D
1962-63
- Lecturer: Mr John Barton
- Title: The Modern Actor and the Speaking of Shakespeare’s Verse
- Drama/Poetry: D/P
1963-64
- Lecturer: Mr Robert Speaight
- Title: Shakespeare’s use of Soliloquy
- Drama/Poetry: P
1964-65
- Lecturer: Mr John Arden
- Title: The Didactic Drama
- Drama/Poetry: D
1965-66
- Lecturer: Mr E Martin Browne (assisted by Henzie Raeburn)
- Title: The making of T S Eliot’s The Cocktail Party (with readings)
- Drama/Poetry: D/P
1966-67
- Lecturer: Miss Ann Jellicoe
- Title: Some Unconscious Influences in the Theatre
- Drama/Poetry: D
1967-68
- Lecturer: Mr Tony Church
- Title: The Return of the Actor-Manager
- Drama/Poetry: D
1968-69
- Lecturer: Mr Bamber Gascoinge
- Title: Some Seventeenth-Century Spectaculars
- Drama/Poetry: D
1969-70
- Lecturer: Dame Edith Evans
- Title: A Poetry Reading
- Drama/Poetry: P
1970-71
- Lecturer: M Jean Jacquot
- Title: ‘What’s Hecuba to us?’
- Drama/Poetry: P
1971-72
- Lecturer: Mr Terry Hands
- Title: Shakespeare: The Word and the Stage
- Drama/Poetry: D
1972-73
- Lecturer: Prof Joseph Kerman
- Title: Opera as Drama
- Drama/Poetry: D
1973-74
- Lecturer: Mr Tony Robertson
- Title: A Play’s the Thing
- Drama/Poetry: D
1974-75
- Lecturer: Mr C Walter Hodges
- Title: Virtuous Fabrick: an argument for re-constructing the Globe Playhouse
- Drama/Poetry: D
1975-76
- Lecturer: Mr Edward Bond
- Title: How to Write Something
- Drama/Poetry: D
1976-77
- Lecturer: Prof J R Northam
- Title: ‘On a firm foundation’ – translating Ibsen
- Drama/Poetry: D
1977-78
- Lecturer: Mr Trevor Griffiths
- Title: Writing for and against Television
- Drama/Poetry: D
1978-79
- Lecturer: Miss Jane Howell
- Title: Towards a Popular Theatre
- Drama/Poetry: D
1978-79
- Lecturer: Mr Seamus Heaney
- Title: A Near Myth: Reflections on the Irish Literary Revival
- Drama/Poetry: D/P
1979-80
- Lecturer: Mr Prof Geoffrey Hill
- Title: ‘What Devil has got into John Ransom’
- Drama/Poetry: P
1980-81
- Lecturer: Prof Dr Robert Weimann
- Title: Comic Versions of Utopia in Shakespeare
- Drama/Poetry: D/P
1980-81
- Lecturer: Rev R S Thomas
- Title: Man & Poet
- Drama/Poetry: P
1980-81
- Lecturer: Mr Jon Silkin
- Title: Isaac Rosenberg: the particularist East-West
- Drama/Poetry: P
1981-82
- Lecturer: Mr B Trukan
- Title: Some Aspects of Teaching Theatre East-West
- Drama/Poetry: D
1981-82
- Lecturer: Mr P Redgrove
- Title: The Witch Who Loves Us: Peter Redgrove reads and reflects on his recent poetry.
- Drama/Poetry: P
1982-83
- Lecturer: Mr Michael Longley
- Title: The Stereophonic Nightmare
- Drama/Poetry: D
1983-84
- Lecturer: Mr Mike Alfreds
- Title: What the theatre isn’t: getting down to basics
- Drama/Poetry: D
1983-84
- Lecturer: Prof E Morgan
- Title: Recyclilng, Mosaic and Collage in Poetry
- Drama/Poetry: P
1984-85
- Lecturer: Prof Andrew Gurr
- Title: Shakespeare’s Globe: audiences then and now.
- Drama/Poetry: D
1984-85
- Lecturer: Dr Sorley Maclean
- Title: Extremes in Scottish Gaelic Poetry
- Drama/Poetry: P
1985-86
- Lecturer: Mr Michael Pennington
- Title: The Interim is Mine
- Drama/Poetry: D
1985-86
- Lecturer: Mr James Fenton
- Title: Poets, War Poets and War
- Drama/Poetry: P
1986-87
- Lecturer: Mr John Lahr
- Title: Clowning and Revenge
- Drama/Poetry: D
1986-87
- Lecturer: Mr A Thwaite
- Title: Using the past: Contemporary poets and History
- Drama/Poetry: P
1987-88
- Lecturer: Mr John Willet
- Title: Brecht at the End of the Century
- Drama/Poetry: D
1987-88
- Lecturer: Mr Douglas Dunn
- Title: Language and Liberty: Scottish Poets in the Twentieth Century
- Drama/Poetry: P
1988-89
- Lecturer: Mr Michael Schmidt
- Title: The Common Reader
- Drama/Poetry: P
1988-89
- Lecturer: Prof Muriel Bradbrook
- Title: The Rose Theatre
- Drama/Poetry: D
1989-90
- Lecturer: No Judith E Wilson Lectures
1990-91
- Lecturer: Prof Seamus Deane
- Title: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, reading Modernist poems
- Drama/Poetry: P
1990-91
- Lecturer: Mr John Peter
- Title: Plato, the text, and the overnight critic
- Drama/Poetry: D
1991-92
- Lecturer: Griff Rhys Jones
- Title: Playing Comedy
- Drama/Poetry: D
1991-92
- Lecturer: Prof Donald Davie
- Title: Poetry and Christian Doctrine
- Drama/Poetry: P
1992-93
- Lecturer: Prof C Middleton
- Title: On the Mental Image
- Drama/Poetry: P
1993-94
- Lecturer: Mr Tom Phillips
- Title: The Writing on the Wall
- Drama/Poetry: D/P
1994-95
- Lecturer: Mr Douglas Oliver
- Title: Poetry’s Subject A Commentary and Performance
- Drama/Poetry: P
1994-95
- Lecturer: Ms Fiona Shaw
- Title: She who plays the King
- Drama/Poetry: D
1995-96
- Lecturer: Mr John Fuegi
- Title: How to make women writers disappear: a user’s manual
- Drama/Poetry: D
1996-97
- Lecturer: Ms Janet Suzman
- Title: South Africa in ‘Othello’
- Drama/Poetry: D
1997
- Lecturer: Mr Ariel Dorfman
- Title: From Santiago to Broadway – The Dilemmas of Writing Political Drama in a Globalized World.
- Drama/Poetry: D
1998
- Lecturer: Eaven Boland
- Title: ‘The Lost Poet’
- Drama/Poetry: P
1999
- Lecturer: No Judith E Wilson Lectures
2000
- Lecturer: Nicholas Hytner
- Title: What Makes Theatre Theatre
- Drama/Poetry: D
2001-18
- Lecturer: No Judith E Wilson Lectures
2019
- Lecturer: David Edgar
- Title: State of Play
- Drama/Poetry: D
2020-22
- Lecturer: No Judith E Wilson Lectures
2023
- Lecturer: Claudia Rankine
- Title: A poetry reading
- Drama/Poetry: P