You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. (Hamlet, Chapter 2 Verse 2)
Wednesday, February 3, 7:00 PM
Middlebury College, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Hall (Concert Hall)
Note: the Museum of Art will be open until 7:00 PM.
Keynote Lecture: Shakespeare in America
Shakespeare has been a prism through which American issues—revolution, slavery, war, social justice—have been refracted. Drawing upon his recent anthology of writings, Columbia University Professor James Shapiro explores how the history of Shakespeare in America is also the history of America itself.
James Shapiro, professor of english and comparative literature at Columbia University, is the author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare; Contested Will, Shakespeare in America; and The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606.
A book signing and light reception will follow the lecture.
Cosponsored by the Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury College, and the Vermont Humanities Council. This lecture is the opening event for the exhibition First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Feb. 2-28th.
Visit http://www.middlebury.edu/shakespeare/
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