Tuesday, 3 May 2016

David Ellis

Professor Emeritus, University of Kent School of English

The Sad Tale of Shakespeare Biography

We know desperately little about Shakespeare’s life and what we do know has been in the public domain for a long time. In this lecture, David Ellis demonstrates some of the methods biographers use for overcoming these disadvantages and explores how academics try to make bricks without straw.
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016

Professor Karen Newman

Owen Walker ’33 Professor of Humanities and
Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Brown University

Shakespeare Celebrated: Souvenirs du Théâtre Anglais à Paris

This lecture is about the visit of English Shakespearean actors to Paris in 1827 where they played, first at Odéon, than at Favart, for ten months, performing Shakespeare in English. The commemorative programme reflected French/English rivalries at the time.

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18.30

Grande Salle, Reid Hall

4, rue de Chevreuse 75006 Paris

Free and open to the public