Professor Bate will discuss the Epicurean tradition through As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, and Measure for Measure.
Monday, April 26, 8:00 p.m.
Elizabethan Theatre
Folger Shakepeare Library
201 East Capitol Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
Free and open to the public
Lecturer: Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, is the author of Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (1986), Shakespearean Constitutions (1989), Shakespeare and Ovid (1993), the Arden edition of Titus Andronicus (1995), and The Genius of Shakespeare (1997). He is on the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company, for whom he edited, jointly with Eric Rasmussen, The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (2007). His most recent book is an acclaimed intellectual and contextual biography of Shakespeare, called Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare (2008).