Classical Education Forum

HISTORY THROUGH LITERATURE

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Liz Mayor

Founder and Director of Studies

Water is essential to all life: at one and the same time, it is comfort, relief and power. This British-Turkish writer has constructed a spell-binding novel connecting a poem (The Epic of Gilgamesh), two great rivers (Tigris and Thames) and three lives (Arthur, Narin and Zaleekah) to a single drop of water. We move through time and across continents, a tapestry of life is woven by this single drop of water.

£60

14/01/2026

Darren Freebury-Jones

Shakespeare’s plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern playwrights who influenced him? Broadening knowledge on early modern education and the theatre scene in London, Darren Freebury-Jones offers a fresh look at the influence of a community of playwrights that helped shape the Bard’s work, and exposes a need to see early modern drama as a communal enterprise, with playwrights borrowing from and adapting one another’s creations.

£30

04/12/25