Date/Time
Date(s) - 22 Feb 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
University of Pennsylvania English Graduate Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 330
Category(ies) No Categories
Medieval-Renaissance Seminar
English Graduate Lounge (Fisher-Bennett Hall 330).
William Sherman will discuss his paper “Early Modern Punctuation and Modern Editions: Shakespeare’s Serial Colon.” His paper is attached to this email and available via a PennKey-protected link on the Med-Ren website.
William Sherman is Professor of English at the University of York and a long-term fellow at the Folger Library for the 2011-12 academic year. He has published widely on the history of books and readers, Renaissance drama, travel writing, and textual editing and is the author of Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Penn Press, 2008) and John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (UMass Press, 1995). Currently, he is preparing an edition of Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta for the Arden Early Modern Drama series and working on a series of projects that explore the modern legacies of Renaissance intelligence.