{"id":1123,"date":"2016-11-16T14:57:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:31:09","slug":"shakespeare-400-canterbury-open-lecture-22nd-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2016\/11\/16\/shakespeare-400-canterbury-open-lecture-22nd-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare 400 Canterbury: Open Lecture (22nd November)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shakespeare 400 Canterbury: Chapter and Verse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The final lecture in a collaborative open lecture series, part of the University of Kent\u2019s celebration of the 400<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Shakespeare\u2019s death<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Una McIlvenna (Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, University of Kent)<\/strong> \u2018Songs and Music in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries\u2019 Tuesday 22 November 2016, 5pm Templeman Library Lecture Theatre Hosted by Templeman Library<\/p>\n<p>Drinks reception to follow<\/p>\n<p>All welcome<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early modern plays are filled with songs and singing, although this ubiquity of songs has been an aspect that until recently was either overlooked or seen as an obstacle to be overcome. This lecture will discuss how much we know about the songs and music in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and what role these play in the dramas. Songs are a rich resource that can teach us a lot about daily life in the early modern period, and allow us fresh insight into many well-known plays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/shakespeare400\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/shakespeare400\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare 400 Canterbury: Chapter and Verse The final lecture in a collaborative open lecture series, part of the University of Kent\u2019s celebration of the 400th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2016\/11\/16\/shakespeare-400-canterbury-open-lecture-22nd-november\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}