Courses/Workshops
Institute of Continuing Education: Undergraduate Virtual Open Day
Looking to pursue your love of learning, take the next step in your career or take your first steps along a new career path? Join us for our upcoming Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on 21st May, where we’ll delve into the world of undergraduate study at the Institute of Continuing Education
ONLINE COURSE The role and meaning of plants in Shakespeare
Fri 12 February 2021
online
Have you ever wondered how Ophelia selected her bouquet of plants; which was the ‘little western flower’ that Puck used to cause mayhem, or what exactly Romeo’s friends had in mind when they wished Juliet were a medlar and Romeo a popp’rin pear?
What actually is an apple-john, or indeed a peascod or a codling, and which were insults and which not?
Why do primroses live and die like virgins and why are some pinks bastards?
Drawing on tragedy, comedy and the dangling of apricocks we will explore Shakespeare’s use of plants as contemporaries would have understood them, both as common meaning and as extended symbolism. A glorious morning of Shakespearian revelry which will transform your understanding of fennel!
Cost: £25
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