Banned Together: 2019 Censorship Cabaret Philadelphia Premiere!

Mon, September 23, 2019 7:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Banned Together: A Censorship Cabaret is back for its fourth year in a row and appearing for the first time in Philadelphia! The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund (DLDF) created Banned Together as a celebration of songs and scenes from shows that have been censored or challenged on America’s…

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Shakespeare in the World Lecture Series: Shakespeare and the Supernatural

Wed, October 23, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Lecture will be in room 406. Shakespeare’s plays are full of supernatural elements and entities, but how did these fantastic spectacles appear on stage during Shakespeare’s time? What did Shakespeare’s fairies look like? How were ghosts recognized on stage? What were the…

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Shakespeare in the World: Shakespeare’s Wonder Women

Wed, November 20, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Lecture is in Room 406. In his first letter from the New World in 1493, Christopher Columbus described the women of the island Matremonio as Amazons from classical myth. By Shakespeare’s time, these women-warriors had become regular characters in both fiction and non-fiction texts, and…

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Shakespeare in the World: Shakespeare and the Violated Body

Wed, January 22, 2020 6:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Lecture is in room 406. Carol Chillington Rutter suggests that while bodies in texts may disappear, “Material bodies in the theatre remain in view.” Traumatized bodies in literature or criticism can be skipped over or even erased, but in the closed space of the theatre, we cannot…

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Shakespeare in the World Lecture Series: Love and Conflict in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Wed, March 25, 2020 6:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Lecture will be in room 406. There is an Internet meme that suggests that Romeo and Juliet is not a love story but rather a brief relationship between two teenagers that causes multiple deaths. But do the lovers cause the deaths or are they themselves the victims of the polarized environment…

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