Panel discussion; New Approaches to Shakespeare
New Approaches to Shakespeare
June 7, 2004, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Coolidge Corner Branch Library
31 Pleasant Street, Brookline, MA
Sarah Smith, Shakespeare Fellowship member and author of Chasing Shakespeares, will lead a panel discussion that will include Richard Whalen, Shakespeare Fellowship member and author of Shakespeare: Who Was He? The panel may also include Mel Cobb, Shakespeare and Co., director of the Bankside theater project.
Cobb will discuss the way the Bankside and Rose theater projects will illuminate Shakespeare theatrics. The Rose theater project is the building of the world’s first historically accurate re-creation of the Rose Playhouse in Lennox, MA. by Shakespeare & Co. . Smith will discuss the way that new advances in Shakespeare studies are changing the way we think about the Elizabethan period and may be challenging traditional thought. Whalen will then speak about Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. The evening will include refreshments and there will be books available for sale.
This event is Free and open to the Public, and would appeal to anyone who may be new to the Authorship issue as well as those more familiar. Students are especially welcome.
The library is accessible by public transportation. For location and driving directions to the Coolidge Corner Branch Library, Please visit the Coolidge website.