Lectures on literature, film and theatre
Professor John Gillies, head of the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and a distinguished Shakespearean scholar, will be in Malta this week to deliver two lectures. His visit is taking place under the...
Professor John Gillies, head of the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and a distinguished Shakespearean scholar, will be in Malta this week to deliver two lectures. His visit is taking place under the generous auspices of the British Council and in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts.
On Wednesday at 5 p.m. as part of the Faculty's Literature and Comparison Research Seminar, Professor Gillies will deliver a lecture called "Unspeakable Contents: Shakespeare on the Boulevard du Crime" at the Gateway Building, Hall C.
Professor Gillies will analyse Marcel Carné's Occupation-era film, Les Enfants du Paradis, from the perspective of Adornian aesthetics.
The lecture will therefore bring together Shakespeare, film and literary theory.
On Thursday at 7 p.m. Professor Gillies will deliver another lecture called 'Shakespeare in Exotic Performance Mode: Style and Stylisation' in the Sala Isouard at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta.
The talk treats the curious genesis and evolution of stylisation as a 20th century performance mode, both generally and particularly with respect to Shakespeare.
Professor Gillies' wife Patricia will also be delivering a lecture. The subject of her talk is "Youth and Old Age, Queens and Kings in the Shrewsbury Book, British Library Royal MS 15 E VI".
The lecture bears on an intriguing and diverse collection of epics, romances and political and military treatises that thematises youth and old age in its choice of texts, and which was given to Margaret of Anjou by John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, before her 1445 marriage to Henry VI.
This lecture will take place at the University Library on Thursday at 4 p.m.