The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 27.272  Wednesday, 17 August 2016

 

From:        Paul Hamilton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

Date:         August 16, 2016 at 1:48:35 PM EDT

Subject:    Shakespeare and the Enlightenment

 

Kingston Shakespeare is proud to announce a collaboration with Garrick’s Temple at Hampton in organising Shakespeare and philosophy events. It was David Garrick’s dream to host Enlightenment luminaries, like Voltaire, at the shrine he built to Shakespeare in 1756.

 

Unlike regular Kingston Shakespeare events, these events at the Temple will have an admittance donation of £10. All the money will be used for the event catering and to support the Temple. But the event will be nominally free.

 

The first event will be on September 3, 2016 and is entitled ‘Shakespeare and the Enlightenment’. 

 

 

Programme:

10.00 Welcome: Richard Wilson (Kingston University)

10.15: Paul Kottman (New School, New York)

‘Herder, Hegel and Shakespeare’

 

11.00: Coffee

 

11.30: Patricia Gillies (Essex University)

‘Shakespeare and Hobbes’

12.15: John Gillies (Essex University)

‘The Conversational Turn in Shakespeare’

 

13.00: Lunch (own arrangements: nearby Bell Inn

 and Stables Restaurant recommended)

 

14.00: Edward Chaney (Southampton Solent University):

‘Thy pyramids built up with newer might’:

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Obelisks’

14.45: Kate Felus (Historic Landscapes):

‘Garrick’s Temple Garden’

 

15.30: Tea

 

16.30: Kiernan Ryan:

‘The Empathetic Imagination and the Dream of Equality:

Shakespeare’s “Poetical Justice”’

 

19.30: Concert: Lovekyn Renaissance Consort

 

Reserve your place at: https://shakespeareandtheenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk

 

Places are limited to 50.

 

Kingston Shakespeare Seminar

 

 

PDF Announcement:  pdf SHAKESPEARE AND ENLIGHTENMENT (210 KB)

 

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