Rebecca Bushnell to Deliver Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Annual Lecture
The English Department is pleased to announce one of the very first events of the new academic year. On Friday, September 5, at 3:00 PM, Professor Rebecca Bushnell will deliver the Dean’s Scholars’ in Shakespeare Annual Lecture. The Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Program is directed by Professor Holly Dugan. This lecture will take place in the Academic Building (Post Hall) of GW’s Mount Vernon Campus.
Professor Rebecca Bushnell is the President of the Shakespeare Association of America and professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous books, including Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (Cornell University Press, 2003) and Tragedy: A Short Introduction (Blackwell, 2005) and the editor of Companion to Tragedy (Blackwell, 2005).
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| Professor Rebecca Bushnell |
Her talk is entitled “What ist’ o’clock?”: Comic and Tragic Temporality in Shakespeare.
How do characters and audience experience time in Shakespeare’s plays and why does it matter? This lecture will pursue a general theory of comic and tragic time in performance, in The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. The Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Annual Lecture is designed for a broad audience. It is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by a reception.
Information on the free shuttle between Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon campus can be accessed here.
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| A Companion to Tragedy Edited by Rebecca Bushnell |
Part of the purpose of this event is to welcome the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare to GW. Students in this two-year, 16-credit program will be residing in Cole Hall and taking courses on Mount Vernon.
The Shakespeare Annual Lecture series features distinguished Shakespearean scholars each year and brings cutting-edge work to GW’s campus.
