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Credit: Jason Smith
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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
This 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.
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