Date/Time
Date(s) - 27 Apr 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
CUNY Graduate Center
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Please join us at the CUNY Graduate Center on Friday April 27, at 4 pm, for the annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture.
Mario DiGangi (Graduate Center), “Affective Agency and Political Knowledge in Shakespeare’s History Plays.”
Lecture description: Sixteenth-century English drama engages political thought in ways that go beyond statements of doctrine or constitutional allegiance. Drawing on the work of affect theorists and philosophers of emotion who critique the notion of the political agent as simply a “rational cognitive subject” and who reject the ontological dualism that splits the political from the psychic, I explore in this talk the affective politics of the Elizabethan history play. I will focus on scenes in Shakespeare’s Richard III and King John in which affective relations between noblemen and hired murderers make available certain forms of political agency and political knowledge.
The CUNY Graduate Center in the English Department Lounge, Room 4406, at 4 PM
Friday, 27April
365 Fifth Avenue (34th-35th Sts)
All are welcome; a reception will follow.