The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and the Chicago Humanities Festival
present
Classics in Context:
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Saturday, March 13, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Institute for the Humanities, lower level, Stevenson Hall
Peter Beckway is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His areas of speciality are John Donne and Shakespeare. He has most recently presented research at the Central Renaissance Conference in August 2003.
Mark Canuel is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and was a finalist for the MLA First Book Prize. His most recent essays and a forthcoming book are on the politics of the death penalty in English writing of the Romantic period.
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).
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 the Folger Shakespeare Library and Simon & Schuster, Inc. for contributing copies of The Merchant of Venice, and corresponding curriculum guides for the use of teachers participating in this event.
