Our courses have included studies of both classic and contemporary fiction, poetry and drama. In recent years they have included a study of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, an introduction to Greek Tragedy and another to Irish Drama, through the plays of Brian Friel.
Our popular poetry courses have ranged from an investigation into poems in Old English, an introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets and a study of Milton’s Paradise Lost, to a look at John Keats in 1819, and the poems of Philip Larkin and Charles Causley. In fiction we have studied works by Charles Dickens, E. M. Forster and George Eliot, through to J G Farrell, Bernard MacLaverty, Anne Enright, and Colm Tóibín.
We hope to offer further courses in the future. If you have any ideas that you feel would be a good fit for us, please do let us know at berwickea@gmail.com.