The Chicago Humanities Festival
&
The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
present
Classics in Context:
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
A workshop for Teachers on Saturday, October 2nd, 1999. A panel of scholars who work on both twentieth-century and English Renaissance drama will explore the relationship between William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
Presenters:
Frances E. Dolan is and Assistant Professor in the English Department at Miami University of Ohio. She is currently editing five Shakespeare playes for Pelican, and recently received the 1999 Distinguished Educator Award from Miami University of Ohio. Her publications include The Taming of the Shrew: Text and Contexts and forthcoming volume, tentatively tiled Whores of Babylon: Catholicism and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture.
John Huntington is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published widely in the field of Renaissance poetry and drama, as well as in the field of science fiction and cultural studies, with an emphasis on H. G. Wells. He is the author of Rationalizing Genius: Ideological Strategies in the Classic American Science Fiction Short Story, among other works, and is currently working on the Tudor author George Chapman.
Natalie Crohn Schmitt is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has taught twentieth-century drama in both the English and Performing Arts Departments of the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Actors and Onlookers: Theater and Twentieth-Century Scientific Views of Nature. She has directed numerous productions, and is currently working on two projects: “Yeat’s Theatre Aesthetic” and “Recreating Commedia dell’Art from is Scenarios”.
Scott Cutler Shershow is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Miami University of Ohio. He is the author of Puppets and “Popular” Culture and Laughing Matters: The Paradox of Comedy. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary study on the relationship of economics and ethics, suggesting that economic discourse has always been moral in its purposes and effects.
