News Releases

Shakespeare Revises “Hamlet"

February 1, 2008

Steven Urkowitz, professor of English and theater at City College of New York, will present a free public talk of interest to all Shakespeare fans.  “Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter? Shakespeare Revises ‘Hamlet’” is scheduled for 4:15 p.m., Wednesday, February 6 in the University Events Room of USM’s Glickman Family Library, Portland.  For more information about this talk, please contact Richard H. Abrams, associate professor of English, at 780-4314.

Urkowitz’s lecture will be dramatically illustrated by the Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, presenters of the “Naked Shakespeare” series.  Naked Shakespeare encourages audiences to re-experience Shakespeare’s language and imagery by presenting performances without sets, lights and costumes.  Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble will present “Hamlet” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, February 12, in USM’s Talbot Lecture Hall, Portland.  For more information about Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, see
http://www.acorn-productions.org/pages/NakedShakespeare.html.

Steven Urkowitz recently retired to Portland after a successful career of university teaching and directing in New York City.  He received a Grammy nomination for his work on early music, and his book “Shakespeare’s Revision of ‘King Lear’” began a revolution in editing Shakespeare.  Currently, he is finishing a book on Shakespeare’s revisions of additional plays including “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet” and a biography of actress and acting teacher Uta Hagen.  He has lectured on editing, teaching and acting Shakespeare throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.

>more news releases

^ top