Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media
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Keynote Speakers
David Bevington
Russ Castronovo
David Bevington of the University of Chicago (c) Jason Smith
Photo Credit: Jason Smith

David Bevington

"Gender and Race in the Performance
of Shakespeare's Plays"

7 pm, Saturday, March 1 - Room 315, Altgeld Hall


David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967, and adjunct faculty with
the Center for Gender Studies.


His multifarious scholarship has engaged all aspects of medieval
and early modern English drama.  Recent publications include
T
his Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance,
Then and Now,
2007; the Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama (senior editor), 2002;The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque
(editor with Peter Holbrook), 1998.


His speech at MCLLM will address race and gender in
Shakespeare.

The keynote speakers are sponsored in part by the Graduate Colloquium.
MCLLM is sponsored by the Graduate English Department of Northern Illinois University.