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Lecture

Postcolonial Tragedies: Brian Friel's 'Translations' and Lorraine Hansberry's 'Les Blancs' with Dr Sean McEvoy

Hosted at Murray Edward College, the Sixth Form Lecture Series is a free, in-person programme for people interested in language and literature based degrees.

Book cover of Les Blancs
Mode
In-person
Date
17:30–19:00, 11 March 2026, GMT
Location
Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF

The Murray Edwards Sixth Form Lecture Series

 

Hosted at Murray Edward College, the Sixth Form Lecture Series will dive into English Literature, French, Spanish, Classics and many more literature and language-based subjects by exploring many commonly studied A Level texts and topics in new and interesting ways.

Join us at Murray Edwards College (Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF) from 17:30 for refreshments and informal conversations with current students. The lectures themselves will begin at 18:00 and be an hour in duration.

These lectures are completely free and open to the public.

For more information about the programme click here.

 

Postcolonial Tragedy: Brian Friel's Translations and Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs

Dr Sean McEvoy

In this lecture, Dr Sean McEvoy will discuss two postcolonial tragedies: Translations (1980) and Les Blancs (1970).

Dr McEvoy's work focusses primarily on Shakespeare and early modern drama, and on twentieth-century English and Irish theatre. He has a particular interest in tragedy.

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