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Bjoern Quiring on King Lear

A seminar with Bjoern Quiring, author of Shakespeare's Curse.

BjÖrn quiring is is a fellow of the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin and a member of the research group “The Role of Nature in Conceptualising Political Order: Ancient ~ Medieval ~Early Modern” at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Curse: The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama (Routledge, 2014) and the editor of Theatrum Mundi (Walther König, 2013), which features essays by Martin Harries, Jane O. Newman, and Julia Lupton among others.

Free and open to the public.
For event information, please contact Jane O. Newman, jonewman@uci.edu.

Co-sponsored by w/Shakespeare, a Multi-Campus Research Group, as part of the "Shakespeare and Phenomenology" Reading Group.