Shakespeare’s First Folio and Second Chance
With Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
To read a play after seeing it performed on stage is to give it a second chance. The plot, the characters, and the words may be largely the same, but the experience is transformed by the change in medium, with a different scope for the imagination and a significantly altered quality of attention. . .
How William Became Shakespeare: Four Hundred Years of the First Folio
Join co-curators of our new exhibition, How William Became Shakespeare: Four Hundred Years of the First Folio Cecily Dyer, Special Collections Librarian, and Shannon Kelley, director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Professor of English at Fairfield University, to learn how Shakespeare became the most famous writer in the English language. . .
An Evening with Tony Kushner
Made possible by the Center of Jewish Studies at Harvard University, Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter, playwrite and activist Tony Kushner joined fellow Pulitzer Prize honoree Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities,…