“Individuality and Shakespeare”
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
29-9-2023 2:00 PM
Description
How does comedy open possibilities for individuality or flourishing? Join two fearless Shakespeare scholars and two excellent actors from the Nashville Shakespeare Festival in exploring questions of comedy, individualism, and social belonging. In this interactive session, the actors will run two short scenes from the current NSF production of Much Ado About Nothing, one featuring the beloved mismatched lovers Beatrice and Benedick, and the other, the linguistically dexterous Master Constable Dogberry. Together, we will consider how comic language offers (or shuts down) possibilities of gender equity, sexual fluidity, neurodiversity, linguistic freedom, and more even as it lays the groundwork for community and social renewal in Shakespeare’s day and ours.
Recommended Citation
Yeo, Jayme and McDonald, Marcia, "“Individuality and Shakespeare”" (2023). Humanities Symposium. 1.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2023/2023/1
“Individuality and Shakespeare”
Janet Ayers Academic Center, Room 4094
How does comedy open possibilities for individuality or flourishing? Join two fearless Shakespeare scholars and two excellent actors from the Nashville Shakespeare Festival in exploring questions of comedy, individualism, and social belonging. In this interactive session, the actors will run two short scenes from the current NSF production of Much Ado About Nothing, one featuring the beloved mismatched lovers Beatrice and Benedick, and the other, the linguistically dexterous Master Constable Dogberry. Together, we will consider how comic language offers (or shuts down) possibilities of gender equity, sexual fluidity, neurodiversity, linguistic freedom, and more even as it lays the groundwork for community and social renewal in Shakespeare’s day and ours.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Cultural Well-Being