Related: The Future of the Humanities Project
Over the course of the 2019-2020 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project sponsored a series of lectures in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford on the topic “Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark,” including an address by former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
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Blackfriars-St. Giles, Oxford
Michael Scott, Blackfriars Hall, “Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark– An Introduction to a Series of Talks” [Audio]
Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, “The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Shakespeare, and Spirituality” [Audio]
Blackfriars-St. Giles, Oxford
Beatrice Groves, Trinity College, “Shakespeare and the Psalms” [Audio]
Michael Collins, Georgetown University, “Shakespeare and the Parables” [Audio]
Blackfriars-St. Giles, Oxford
Yvette Khoury, Blackfriars, “Nuns and Friars in Shakespeare” [Audio]
Clare Asquith, Literary Historian and Critic, “Shakespeare, Religion, and Toleration” [Audio]
Campion Hall, Oxford
Paulina Kewes, Jesus College, Oxford, “Religion and Politics in Hamlet” [Audio]
Elizabeth Schafer, Royal Holloway University, “Measure for Measure, #Me Too, and Performing Christianity Today” [Audio]
Loannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
Rowan Williams, Magdalene College, Cambridge, “Binding the Sacrifice: Theological Parodies in The Merchant of Venice” [Video]
Virtual Event
Bonnie Lander Johnson, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, "Shakespeare and Eden: Botanical Ornament and the Book of Nature in Cymbeline" [Video]
Virtual Event
Andrew Moran, University of Dallas, "Natural and Supernatural Happiness in The Taming of the Shrew" [Video]
Virtual Event
Molly Clark, Merton College, Oxford, "Shakespeare and the Morality Plays: A Formal Heritage" [Video]
Virtual Event
John Drakakis, University of Stirling, "Putting Religion to the Question: Political Theology in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy and Venetian Plays" [Video]
The four plays in the Second Tetralogy, and particularly Henry V, raise different kinds of questions resulting from the clash of a spiritually and metaphysically assumed sovereign order with the…
In the mid-sixteenth-century genre of the morality play the interludes featured personified abstract nouns as their characters, divided into good and evil. These productions would have toured the…
Although Lucentio quickly forgets about “that part of philosophy / … that treats of happiness / by virtue specially to be achieved,” Shakespeare does not. In The Taming of the Shrew the conversation…
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is rich in botanical ornament and symbolism. Flowers and trees appear in the play’s prophesies, its funerary rituals, and its numerous domestic settings: such as the courtly…
