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Second Spring, 6a King St, Oxford OX2 6DF
Summer School at St Benet's Hall, Oxford

Thursday 27 July to Thursday 3 August 2006

Shakespeare's Secret: The Catholic Imagination in Elizabethan England


Clare Asquith, author of Shadowplay: Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare with Peter Milward author of Shakespeare the Papist
and guest lecturers.

Thomas More scholar John Guy writes: “Even if only half of Clare Asquith’s argument turns out to be correct, she’s written the most visceral, challenging, compelling book on Shakespeare’s place in history we’ve had for over twenty years.”

There are still places available at this extraordinary summer school, set in the heart of Oxford in a Benedictine Hall a few door away from the Eagle and Child pub where Tolkien and Lewis used to meet their fellow Inklings. For the first time Clare Asquith joins forces with distinguished Shakespeare scholar Peter Milward to present her exciting new interpretation of the plays, in the context of the English Reformation and the Elizabethan Renaissance that helped to shape the modern world.

Introduction to Elizabethan England
Introduction to William Shakespeare
Seminars with Clare Asquith on As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest
Excursion to Stratford on Avon
to see the RSC’s production of The Tempest with Patrick Stewart
Guest lectures on Elizabethan Music, Poetry, Cosmology
Plus Guided Tour: The Oxford of Lewis and Tolkien

For details, bookings and enquiries write to s_caldecott@yahoo.co.uk