Hamlet’s Luck: The Theology of Chance

Please join us for the first Medieval-Renaissance Seminar of the year next Wednesday, September 28 at 5 p.m. in the English Graduate Lounge (Fisher-Bennett Hall 330).

Brian Cummings (Professor of English, University of Sussex) will discuss his paper: “Hamlet’s Luck: The Theology of Chance.” His paper is  available via a PennKey-protected link on the Med-Ren website. Paper copies are also available in the Med-Ren mailbox in the English Department mail room.

Professor Cummings is the author of The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace (OUP, 2002), a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2003, and the editor of The Book of Common Prayer for OUP (forthcoming, October 2011). The project of which his Med-Ren paper is a part is entitled Mortal Thoughts: Religion, Secularity, and Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. Professor Cummings also currently holds a major research fellowship from The Leverhulme Trust for his project entitled “The Confessions of Shakespeare.”

We look forward to welcoming Professor Cummings to the seminar and to seeing many of you next week.