UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
3rd Annual British Academy/Leeds Humanities Research Institute Lecture
Professor Tiffany Stern (University of Oxford)
"'The Two Hours' Traffic of Our Stage': Time for Shakespeare"
Monday 24 November 2014, 5:30 pm
Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler (Arts) Building
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When the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet announces that the performance will last two hours, what does Shakespeare mean? Professor Tiffany Stern asks how time was understood in an age of sandglasses, sundials and inaccurate clockwork. Considering the sound and the look of the instruments of time, Professor Stern asks about Shakespeare’s works ranging from the practical to the editorial and to the analytical. How long did Shakespeare’s plays take to perform? Why are Shakespearean characters associated with ways of measuring time? What textual cruxes in Shakespeare’s plays relate to timepieces? And what did terms like an hour, a minute, or a second actually convey to a Shakespearean audience?
Tiffany Stern is Professor of Early Modern Drama at the University of Oxford. Her books include Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (2007) and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009). She has edited a number of plays and written over forty articles and chapters on 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century literature.
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All are welcome to attend this event, which will be followed by a wine reception.
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For the University of Leeds Brotherton Collection First Folio, which this year was made freely available in digital form, see http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/view/578/first_folio_home
Gregory Radick
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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Director, Leeds Humanities Research Institute
Editor-in-Chief, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
President, British Society for the History of Science
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