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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…
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…
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…