10 November 2021 - 10 November 2021
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Online (Zoom)
Free
We hope you will join us for a thought-provoking hour of lecture and discussion at our next Inventions of the Text event, open to the public.
Inventions of the Text
An everlasting master of portraying humanity, did Shakespeare think at all in terms of ‘race’? Is the problem of ‘race’ a reality at all times or does the modern world exacerbate it? What are the relations between race and religion, nationality, money, and class? Shakespearean scholar Robert S. Miola will share his recent new discoveries on ‘Shakespeare and Race’, which looks forward to an anti-racist edition of Macbeth he is currently working on.
Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English and a Lecturer in Classics at Loyola University Maryland
Robert S. Miola has edited Macbeth (2004) and Hamlet (2011), Ben Jonson’s Every Man In His Humour (2000) and The Case is Altered (2012), among other plays. On the reception of classical antiquity he has published Shakespeare’s Rome (1983), Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy (1992), Shakespeare and Classical Comedy (1994), an edition of Chapman’s Iliad (2017), as well as articles on Aristophanes, Homer, and the Greek tragedians in later incarnations.
/prod01/prodbucket01/media/durham-university/departments-/english-studies/77520%5B1%5D-1-1989X659.jpg)