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400 Years Later: Shakespeare and “What He Hath Left Us”

To commemorate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the CUNY Graduate Center and Theatre for a New Audience present a two-day symposium on Shakespeare’s legacy on the stage and the page.

Ben Jonson’s dedicatory poem “To the memory of my beloved . . . William Shakespeare” poses an implicit question in its title, asking “What he hath left us.” Jonson answers his own question by writing that he left us work that would last “not of an age, but for all time!”

We will explore questions and answers about this enduring legacy in two separate sessions featuring members of the Theatre’s Council of Scholars: Richard McCoy (author of Faith in Shakespeare), Gail Kern Paster (Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library, past president of SAA, and current editor of Shakespeare Quarterly), Tanya Pollard (author of Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England), and Ayanna Thompson (author of Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach). Panels will also feature Jeffrey Horowitz (Founding Artistic Director of Theatre for a New Audience) and Mario Di Gangi (current President of the Shakespeare Association of America).

Free symposium. For more information and to reserve seats to individual talks, visit www.tfana.org/Symposium. Some talks will be held at CUNY Graduate Center, and some will be held at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217. 











When: Fri., Mar. 18, 2016 - Sat., Mar. 19, 2016 at 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave.
212-817-7000
Price: Free
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To commemorate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the CUNY Graduate Center and Theatre for a New Audience present a two-day symposium on Shakespeare’s legacy on the stage and the page.

Ben Jonson’s dedicatory poem “To the memory of my beloved . . . William Shakespeare” poses an implicit question in its title, asking “What he hath left us.” Jonson answers his own question by writing that he left us work that would last “not of an age, but for all time!”

We will explore questions and answers about this enduring legacy in two separate sessions featuring members of the Theatre’s Council of Scholars: Richard McCoy (author of Faith in Shakespeare), Gail Kern Paster (Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library, past president of SAA, and current editor of Shakespeare Quarterly), Tanya Pollard (author of Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England), and Ayanna Thompson (author of Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach). Panels will also feature Jeffrey Horowitz (Founding Artistic Director of Theatre for a New Audience) and Mario Di Gangi (current President of the Shakespeare Association of America).

Free symposium. For more information and to reserve seats to individual talks, visit www.tfana.org/Symposium. Some talks will be held at CUNY Graduate Center, and some will be held at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217. 

Buy tickets/get more info now