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Lecture | Hamlet: Poetry That Doesn’t Matter -- Plus, a Renaissance Music Concert

Friday, April 15, 2011, 1:15 pm

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In Shakespeare’s most self-conscious play, obsessed with writing, acting, directing, singing and public speaking, what types of poetry and performance “matter”? Shakespeareans have been concentrating in recent years on the materiality of the text, the concrete physical substances and practices of writing that circulated in Renaissance culture. But what exactly is material – not to mention lasting and meaningful – about the Ghost’s Impalpable presence, Hamlet’s erasable journals, the Players’ ephemeral performances, and Ophelia’s mad, musical song-speech?

The lecture is by Writer in Residence Scott Trudell, a PhD candidate in English literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is writing a dissertation about the relationship between literature and music in early modern England.

Directly after the lecture, celebrate the finale of Shakespeare Week with Renaissance English choral music. Music Divine will perform selections from Shakespeare’s great musical contemporaries, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tomkins and William Byrd. These sacred and secular masterpieces will introduce us to the other great performative culture of Renaissance England, one whose ideas and melodies continually resonated on the Shakespearean stage. Music Divine sings music without instrumental accompaniment from all periods during the past millennium, specializing in sacred music of the Renaissance.

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