The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and the Chicago Humanities Festival
present
Classics in Context:
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Saturday, September 28, 2002, 9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Institute for the Humanities, lower level, Stevenson Hall
David Bevington is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is the senior editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama; the editor of Medieval Drama (Houghton Mifflin, 1975); The Bantam Shakespeare, in 29 paperback volumes (1988) The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Harper Collins, 1992; updated Longman 1997) the Oxford 1 Henry IV (1987), the Cambridge Antony and Cleopatra (1990), and the Arden 3 Troilus and Cressida (1998). His critical studies include Action is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture (Harvard University Press, 1984). David Bevington is a senior editor of the Revels plays, and the senior editor of the Revels Student editions. He is also a senior editor of a long-term project to edit the complete works of Ben Jonson for Cambridge.
Mary Beth Rose is Director of the Institute for the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2002); and The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Cornell University Press, 1988); and co-editor (with Leah S. Marcus and Janel M. Mueller) of Elizabeth I: Collected Works (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Jonathan Walker is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His dissertation, “Reading Material [for] Performance: Theater and Textuality in the English Renaissance,” examines offstage action, visual, and non-verbal elements in relation to material conditions of Renaissance playhouse in plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Kyd. His article, “The Transtextuality of Transvestite Sainthood; or, How to Make the Gendered Form Fit the Generic Function,” will appear in Exemplaria in Spring, 2003.
For additional information, please call the Institute for the Humanities at 312/996-6354
or the Chicago Humanities Festival at 312/661-1028.
The Chicago Humanities Festival sincerely thanks Oxford University Press for contributing copies of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and A Lovers Complaint, edited by Stanley Wells, for the use of teachers participating in this event.
