THEY are widely considered to be their respective countries’ greatest ever authors.Now Cervantes and Shakespeare will “meet” for the first time to mark the 400th anniversary of both their deaths.

Tilting at Windmills: Cervantes “Meets” Shakespeare 400 Years On sees theatre and language students from Manchester Metropolitan University perform extracts from the two writers’ best-known works.

The pair will also engage in a dialogue with a difference as they reflect on a modern world which they could not have known but was probably not that different to theirs in terms of its pressing issues.

The event is part of the University’s lauded Humanities in Public series and takes place from 5pm to 8pm at No. 70 Oxford Street on April 22 – the day before UNESCO’s World Book Day and World Book Night in the United Kingdom.

Organiser Idoya Puig, Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Manchester Metropolitan University, said: “These are two writers who are part of their countries’ identity, tradition and literary culture. It is a major anniversary for this country and for Spain.”

The Humanities in Public series will continue with free film screenings of Patricio Guzman’s The Battle of Chile and Chile Obstinate Memory, a symposium on the impact of alleged new-found freedoms for women in the 1960s and an evening at Manchester Cathedral to explore what it means to have “Faith in the World”.

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