Shakespeare scholar to speak at CNU
News Release - Sept. 19, 2006
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 Shakespeare scholar Dr. David Bevington will lecture at Christopher Newport University at 3 p.m. on Nov. 13 in the Ferguson Center for the Arts Studio Theatre. |
(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — A prominent Shakespeare scholar will lecture at Christopher Newport University at 3 p.m. on Nov. 13 in the
Ferguson Center for the Arts Studio Theatre. Dr. David Bevington, professor at the University of Chicago, will lecture on “The Perils of Courtship in Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Merchant of Venice and 12th Night.” This lecture is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by Department of English and the Dean’s Office of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For more information, contact Dr. Sharon M. Rowley, Department of English, at (757) 594-8874. More about Dr. Bevington Dr. David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, professor in English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature and chair of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. As one of the world's foremost Shakespearean scholars, has written or edited more than 30 volumes on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His scholarship has engaged him with all aspects of medieval and Renaissance drama, from the fundamental philological work of making the texts available for theoretical discussions about where and whether the text of the play exists, to the most personal connection with their meanings. Currently he is the senior editor of the forthcoming "Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama," to contain 27 plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries (Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster and others). He also is the editor of "Medieval Drama" (Houghton Mifflin, 1975); "Bantam Shakespeare," in 29 paperback volumes (Bantam, 1988); and "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" (Longman, 1992). |
Christopher Newport University is a four-year public university in Newport News, Virginia. CNU enrolls 4,800 students in programs through its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Luter School of Business and offers great teaching, small classes and an emphasis on leadership, civic engagement and honor. Visit us at www.cnu.edu.