Free Queens Mar 17: “Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Reading Renaissance Drama”
| March 17, 2008 | ||
| 2:00 pm |
In Dunning Hall Room 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Ian Johnston presents “Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Reading Renaissance Drama”
This lecture will examine the historical context of Shakespeare’s, as well as his contemporaries’, drama, and explain how to use that context to better understand these plays. Shakespeare’s plays in particular will be considered in the context of a vibrant, competitive, as well as cooperative play writing environment. This lecture will also examine some of the language of Renaissance plays in an effort to help the casual reader or viewer of Renaissance drama interpret internal cues that have been lost over time.
Biography: Ian Johnston is in the fourth year of his Ph.D. and has had a long love for drama, both Renaissance and contemporary. Currently he is teaching a course on Shakespeare’s later plays. His dissertation is a trans-historical project on power and sexuality’s relationship to political ideology.
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