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Jonathan Bate and Dora Thornton .
Chaired by Claire Cochrane
Shakespeare: Staging the World
1:30pm | Saturday 15 September 2012Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
£N/A | 1 Hour | St Mary Magdalene Church |
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This was an Oxford Literary Festival 2012 Event.
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Leading Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate and Renaissance expert Dora Thornton join forces to provide a unique insight into the lives of our leading playwright and his contemporaries. Shakespeare: Staging the World links historical objects and works of art with Shakespeare’s plays to show how the playwright informed his audience of major events and issues of the day. A 16th-century dagger found in the Thames gives significance to the gang violence of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V’s saddle, helm and shield recall the depiction of war in the history plays, and the gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes’ lantern provide inspiration for Macbeth.
Bate is Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and formerly professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at the University of Warwick. He is an internationally acclaimed author whose works include Soul of Age: the Life, Mind and Works of William Shakespeare. Thornton is curator of Renaissance Europe at the British Museum and author of several works including The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy. Shakespeare: Staging the World has been published to coincide with a major new exhibition at the British Museum.
This event is presented by the University of Worcester and chaired by theatre scholar of the university, Dr Clare Cochrane. Much of her work has focused on Shakespeare and her most recent book is Twentieth Century British Theatre Industry. Art and Empire.