On Monday 7th February, Dr Eric Langley, Associate Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at UCL, spoke to Sixth Form English Literature students about Measure for Measure. Dr Langley gave a lively and wide-ranging lecture, which culminated with the argument that Shakespeare’s play asks the question: ‘what is the cost of comedy?’ The cost of comedy, he suggested, is that we have to abandon our individuality, and accept that we are required to conform and be socially useful. In their exam, students have to discuss critics and criticism, and it is therefore pleasing for them to be able to quote from our own FHS visiting lecturers, as well as from articles and books.

Mr Strathdene, Teacher of English and Classics