Encountering Shakespeare - Conference Presentations and Teaching Workshops

Thursday, October 20, 2016, 9 am to 5 pm
Friday, October 21, 2016, 9 am to 5 pm
Campus: 
Dayton
Student Union
Audience: 
Current Students
Faculty
Staff
Alumni
The public

A conference on historical, cultural, textual, and virtual encounters with Shakespeare, featuring keynote speakers:

  • Dr. Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English at George Washington University and author of Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage.
  • Dr. Curtis Perry, Professor of English at University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and author of Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England, The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice, and Eros and Power in English Renaissance Drama: Five Plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford, and Shakespeare. 

This event also features teaching workshops by the professional actors of Canada’s Stratford Theatre Festival, the largest classical theatre repertoire in North America, and the Shakespeare Gala: An innovative soirée blending Shakespeare-inspired artistic encounters including opera, orchestra, period dancing, choral music, musical theatre, and dramatic performance.

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