Invitation: Shakespeare / Cervantes Commemoration Event

The Languages cluster in collaboration with the Department of Library Services invites you to our 'Death Day' event on Friday, 22 April.

Date: Friday, 22 April 2016

Time: 09:30 – 11:30

Venue: Merensky 2 Library auditorium, Level 3, Merensky 2 Library, Hatfield Campus

RSVP: Kindly confirm your attendance 

Programme:

1. Welcome
2. Ten things you never knew about Shakespeare – Prof Molly Brown (Department of English)
3. Honest Will and his notorious, lying fables – Ms Marguerite de Waal (Department of English)
4. Shakespeare's "undiscovered countries" – Ms Kirsten Dey (Department of English)
5. The legacy of Cervantes: “the history of a child who is dry, withered, capricious, and filled with inconstant thoughts never imagined by anyone else.” – Prof. Willie Burger (Department of Afrikaans)
6. Capítulo LVIII. Que trata de cómo menudearon sobre don Quijote aventuras tantas, que no se daban vagar unas a otras. [Chapter LVIII: Which tells how adventures came crowding on Don Quixote in such numbers that they gave one another no breathing-time.] – Ms Monica van Dyk (Department of Modern European Languages)
7. Shakespeare Bites (Department of Drama)

Refreshments