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USM’s English Department Hosting Free Lectures about Shakespeare

March 28, 2008

USM’s English Department is invites the public to attend two lectures this April. Both events are free an open to the public. For more information, contact the English Department at 780-4291.

4:15 p.m., Wednesday, April 9, University Events Room, USM Glickman Family Library, Portland campus.
“Law, Justice and Love in Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’” by Regina Schwartz of Northwestern University. Regina Schwartz teaches 17th-century literature, Hebrew Bible, philosophy and literature, law and literature, and religion and literature.

Schwartz’s recent essays on Milton and Renaissance literature appear in Blackwell’s “A Companion to Milton” and The Journal of Religion and Literature. Her essays on Shakespeare and law appear in Triquarterly.

4:15 p.m., Monday, April 28, University Events Room, USM Glickman Family Library, Portland campus.
“Believing Shakespeare: Religion in Shakespeare’s World and in His Plays,” by David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. David Scott Kastan specializes in 16th- and 17th-century literature and culture, Shakespeare, and the history of the book.

Among Kastan’s publications is “Shakespeare and the Book” (2001). He is the first American to serve as a general editor of The Arden Shakespeare, and is presently working on a book called "The Invention of English Literature," a project for which he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.

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