Date/Time
Date(s) - 2 Oct 2014
6:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Location
Schermerhorn Hall
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Columbia’s Early Modern Colloquium is delighted to welcome
Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania), who will be speaking on
‘Hamlet After Q1: “To be or not to be” and the meaning of conscience’
In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered the only copy of Q1 Hamlet then known. The sudden appearance of this radically different text forced the Victorians to rethink Shakespeare as an author and of his most important play. And the effects of this discovery have also shaped, in unseen ways, our own understanding of Hamlet and, as I will discuss here, of exactly what Hamlet means when he says that conscience makes us cowards.
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 6:15pm, 963 Schermerhorn.
All welcome.
For more on Professor Lesser’s new book on Q1 Hamlet see: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15298.html
For further information on this lecture please contact Gabriel Bloomfield ([email protected]) or Alan Stewart ([email protected]).