Symposium to mark the quatercentenary of
Don Quixote



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Friday 4th November 2005
10.00am-5.00pm, Saskatchewan Room, Exeter College

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
10.00
Introduction

10.15-11.15
Jonathan Thacker (Merton College)
'Comedia personified in Lope de Vega and Cervantes'

11.45-12.45
Colin Thompson (St Catherine’s College)
'Witchcraft, fantasy and fiction: La Cañizares, the Coloquio de los perros,  and the power of the imagination'

2.30-3.30
Edwin Williamson (Exeter College)
'The power-struggle between Don Quixote and Sancho: Four crises in the development of the narrative'

4.00-5.00
John Rutherford (Queen’s College)
'Laughs and smiles in the Quixote'

5.30
Taylor Special Lecture
Main Hall, Taylor Institution
6.45-8.00
Reception
Rector’s Lodgings, Exeter College
8.15
Dinner
Dining Hall, Exeter College

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The Cultural Office of the
Spanish Embassy in London


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