Please mark your calendars for the next University of Maryland event in the
Medieval and Renaissance Lecture Series, Renaissance Reckonings:
"Shakespeare and the Order of Books"
By Professor Jean-Christophe Mayer, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier,
France
When? October 29, 12:30pm
Where? Tawes Hall, room 3132
Jean-Christophe Mayer is a senior research fellow employed by the French
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is also a member of the
Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-classical Age and the
Enlightenment (IRCL) at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier. He is the
author of Shakespeare’s Hybrid Faith—History, Religion and the Stage
(Palgrave, 2006). He has edited Breaking the Silence on the Succession: A
Sourcebook of Manuscripts and Rare Texts (Montpellier UP, 2003) and has
published an edition and translation of Henry Porter’s Two Angry Women of
Abington (Pléiade, Gallimard, 2010). He has also edited several collections
of essays, including most recently Representing France and the French in
Early Modern English Drama (U of Delaware Press, 2008) and has just
completed a monograph entitled Shakespeare et la postmodernité: Essais sur
l’Auteur, le Religieux, l’Histoire et le Lecteur. He is co-general editor of
the journal Cahiers élisabéthains and is currently Andrew W. Mellon
long-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C.
During his stay at the Folger, he will be working on a research project
entitled “Reading Shakespeare’s Early Modern Readers,” from which his talk
will be drawn. He is particularly interested in studying the marginalia left
by readers in early editions of Shakespeare and in examining manuscript
commonplace books, miscellanies and notes books. He hopes to be able to
produce a cultural history of reading Shakespeare from the late sixteenth
century to the middle of the eighteenth century.
Refreshments will be served. The talk is sponsored by the University of
Maryland Department of English. For further particulars, please contact the
Medieval and Renaissance Area Group Coordinator, Elizabeth Bearden:
ebearden@umd.edu
Medieval and Renaissance Lecture Series, Renaissance Reckonings:
"Shakespeare and the Order of Books"
By Professor Jean-Christophe Mayer, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier,
France
When? October 29, 12:30pm
Where? Tawes Hall, room 3132
Jean-Christophe Mayer is a senior research fellow employed by the French
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is also a member of the
Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-classical Age and the
Enlightenment (IRCL) at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier. He is the
author of Shakespeare’s Hybrid Faith—History, Religion and the Stage
(Palgrave, 2006). He has edited Breaking the Silence on the Succession: A
Sourcebook of Manuscripts and Rare Texts (Montpellier UP, 2003) and has
published an edition and translation of Henry Porter’s Two Angry Women of
Abington (Pléiade, Gallimard, 2010). He has also edited several collections
of essays, including most recently Representing France and the French in
Early Modern English Drama (U of Delaware Press, 2008) and has just
completed a monograph entitled Shakespeare et la postmodernité: Essais sur
l’Auteur, le Religieux, l’Histoire et le Lecteur. He is co-general editor of
the journal Cahiers élisabéthains and is currently Andrew W. Mellon
long-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C.
During his stay at the Folger, he will be working on a research project
entitled “Reading Shakespeare’s Early Modern Readers,” from which his talk
will be drawn. He is particularly interested in studying the marginalia left
by readers in early editions of Shakespeare and in examining manuscript
commonplace books, miscellanies and notes books. He hopes to be able to
produce a cultural history of reading Shakespeare from the late sixteenth
century to the middle of the eighteenth century.
Refreshments will be served. The talk is sponsored by the University of
Maryland Department of English. For further particulars, please contact the
Medieval and Renaissance Area Group Coordinator, Elizabeth Bearden:
ebearden@umd.edu
