Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Annual Lecture [Recommended Event]

The George Washington University
Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare Annual Lecture 
Professor Jean Howard
Friday, September 18^th
Post Hall (on Mount Vernon Campus)
4-6 pm
Countering the Lucrece Effect: The Performance of Rape on the Early Modern Stage
The story of rape of the Roman matron, Lucrece, fascinated early modern writers. In this talk, Prof. Howard examines the various ways that Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists staged this violent event and in doing so opened up its complicated sexual and political meanings.
Professor Jean Howard is the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous books, including most recently the award-winning Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 (UPenn Press 2007) and Great Shakespeareans: Marx and Freud (Bloomsbury 2012) and she is one of the editors of The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition.
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. This event is generously funded by the GWU department of English, the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, and the Office of the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the George Washington University.
Free shuttle to Mount Vernon Campus: full information here.