A Stanford University English professor and Shakespearean scholar will discuss one of the Bard's most popular comedies Wednesday [Feb. 4] at Mississippi State University.
Stephen Orgel presents a 3:30 p.m. illustrated lecture on Shakespeare's late 16th century comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream." He is author of the 1996 book "Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England" (Cambridge University Press).
The public program in the Colvard Union small auditorium is sponsored by the MSU English department.
Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford, as well as general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture and of the new Pelican Shakespeare editions.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has published widely on political and historical aspects of Renaissance literature, theater and art history. Among his other books are "Illusion of Power" (Berkeley, 1975), "Inigo Jones" (with Sir Ray Strong, Berkeley, 1973) and "The Jonsonian Masque" (Cambridge, 1975).
For more information about the lecture, contact Bill McClung at (601) 325-3644.
