Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 26, 2007|Volume 36, Number 8

Panel to explore world of
‘Shakespeare the Thinker’

Renowned scholars will attempt to shed ,light on Shakespeare’s inner thought processes at a panel discussion being held at Yale on Tuesday, Oct. 30.

Yale literary critic Harold Bloom and Connecticut Poet Laureate John Hollander will be among the panelists for “Shakespeare the Thinker,” to be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Yale Center for British Art lecture hall, 1080 Chapel Street. The event is hosted by Yale University Press, the Yale Center for British Art and the Whitney Humanities Center.

“Shakespeare the Thinker” was organized in honor of the late A.D. Nuttall and the recent publication of his book of the same title. A professor of English at Oxford University and literary scholar, Nuttall shed light on the complicated critical and creative thought processes evident throughout the dramatist’s works.

In addition to Hollander, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, and Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, the panel participants are David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, and Nuttall’s former student N.K. Sugimura, lecturer of English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

“Shakespeare the Thinker” will be followed by a screening of “Throne of Blood,” an adaptation of “Macbeth,” directed by Akira Kurosawa, at the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St.

Both the panel and screening are free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or manana.sikic@yale.edu.

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