Dear Members of LCMRS,

Season's Greetings from the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance 
Studies! 

I very much hope to see you all in the New Year. A prime opportunity to meet 
up will be the first LCMRS ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE on Tuesday, 23 February 
2010. Helen Cooper will speak on 'Shakespeare's Canterbury Tales: The Case 
of A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Time: 5:30pm. Venue: The Leggate Theatre, 
Victoria Galleries and Museum, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool.

Helen Cooper is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the 
University of Cambridge (holder of the chair originally established for C.S. 
Lewis). She has been editor for Old and Middle English for Medium Aevum for 
several years. Her books include 'Pastoral: Medieval into Renaissance'; 'The 
Structure of the Canterbury Tales'; 'Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury 
Tales'; 'The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of 
Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare', and 'Shakespeare and the Medieval 
World' (forthcoming 2010 for the Arden Companions to Shakespeare).

Allow me to take this opportunity to offer you my sincere thanks for your 
support and encouragement during the past year.

With all best wishes,
Harald E Braun, Director