Registration

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• This program is for those 18 and older.

• Registration opens for Delancey Society members on Friday, November 14, for Rosenbach members on Friday, November 21, and for the general public on Wednesday, November 26.

Description

This single-session seminar will explore how Shakespeare’s plays were reshaped during the Restoration period, with particular attention to William Davenant’s adaptation of Macbeth (c. 1664). We’ll examine how Davenant’s departures from (and additions to) Shakespeare’s original text transformed the tragedy for new audiences—and what these changes reveal about the play’s afterlife. We’ll provide a link to copies of both Davenant’s and Shakespeare’s Macbeth.  

Instructor

Daniel Blank is Managing Director of Public Programs at the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation, where among other roles, he leads the renowned Author Events series. He was previously Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature at Durham University (UK). His articles on Shakespeare and early modern drama have been published in Renaissance Quarterly, The Review of English Studies, Renaissance Studies, The Library, and Journal of the History of Ideas. He has also written for the Times Literary Supplement and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His first book, Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Before taking up his academic post at Durham, he received his PhD from Princeton University and spent three years in the Harvard Society of Fellows.