Shakespeare: our contemporary?

A panel of prominent scholars – Colin Burrow, University of Oxford, Michael Dobson, Director, Shakespeare Institute, James Shapiro, Columbia University, Emma Smith, University of Oxford, and Marina Warner, University of Essex – will discuss whether Shakespeare should be considered our contemporary, or as a difficult, distant historical ‘other’.

This event took place on 19 October 2012.

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