The Department of Theatre presents
SHAKESPEARE & INCLUSIVITY
A Semester Long Case-Study of The Merchant of Venice
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Don't miss these two kick-off events!
“Mislike me not for my Complexion”
The Merchant of Venice & Shakespeare’s Diversity Problem
The series kick-off conversation with Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Studies Andrew Hartley
5:30 PM | Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Attend in-person in Robinson 103 or join us via Zoom! (https://uncc.zoom.us/j/94646626258?pwd=NXVqY2tFd2JycUlBaGtXNmxpeEZ4Zz09)
An introduction to the play, its divisive history and its issues discussed in the context of its position both in early modern culture and within the Shakespeare canon by Robinson Shakespeare professor, Andrew Hartley. What are the flashpoints for debate in the play, how are they framed by the particular form of comedy utilized by Shakespeare at this point in his career? What concerns inform the way we contextualize problematic art, and at what point do we decide that something we once valued is now irredeemable?
Andrew Hartley is the Robinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, specializing in performance theory, theatre history and dramaturgy. His academic books include The Shakespearean Dramaturg (Palgrave 2006), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in Performance series, Manchester UP 2013), Shakespeare and Political Theatre (Palgrave 2013), Shakespeare on the University Stage (Cambridge UP 2014), Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader (Arden, 2016), and Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction (Cambridge, 2017). He was the editor of the performance journal Shakespeare Bulletin (Johns Hopkins UP) from 2003-2013 and was an Associate Artist at Georgia Shakespeare where he was a resident dramaturg, and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Central Lancashire (UK).
"Shakespeare and Jewishness"
Virtual Conversation & Presentation by Peter Holland
1:00 PM | Friday, February 4, 2022
Attend via Zoom: https://uncc.zoom.us/j/98764117658?pwd=SEFteHZZNnN2bkZlOU5EZnBKV1BpQT09
As Shakespeare studies, as in every other part of the Academy, deals with issues of racism and other forms of exclusion (gender, sexuality, age, disability, etc.), where does that leave Merchant of Venice? It is a play with a profoundly troubled past but, it often seems, an untroubled present. I shall want to worry at and worry about that surface tranquility and see what we currently seem to be avoiding confronting. I join my fellow Anglo-Jewish writer David Baddiel in wondering why it so often seems that "Jews don't count."
Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies at Notre Dame University. He was editor of Shakespeare Survey, the UK’s leading academic Shakespeare journal for 19 years, co-General Editor, with Stanley Wells and Lena Orlin, of Oxford Shakespeare Topics (Oxford University Press, over 30 volumes to date); with Adrian Poole, of the 18-volume series Great Shakespeareans (Bloomsbury Academic, 2009-13); with Farah Karim-Cooper and Stephen Purcell of a monograph series, Shakespeare in the Theatre (Bloomsbury Academic, 15 volumes to date); and, with Zachary Leader and Tiffany Stern, of the Arden Shakespeare 4th series. He has also edited many Shakespeare plays.
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