A New Year’s Resolution?

Last year, preoccupied with work, I missed every Study Day with the humour, relaxation, information and insights offered by Keith Parsons and Pamela Mason at the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

My new year’s resolution - booking in advance - made sure this didn’t happen again.

Though Keith and Pamela are Shakespeare specialists who teach at the English campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, each session has a different focus. Subjects for the new year are:

14th January: Robert Graves revisited [prose & poetry]


28th January: J.B. Priestley: an undeservedly neglected novel & his best-known play


11th February: Shakespeare at the ‘other’ Stratford [Ontario].


25th February: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park


11th March: The Changeling and Volpone


1st April: Novels by Elizabeth Bowen & Isabel Colegate


15th April: Russian screen versions of Shakespeare’s comedies


6th May: Feminist Film


Full details can be seen on the leaflet available from the BMI or – in due course – on their website: http://www.bmi.org.uk/lectures.html

B.P.