Early Modern Studies
Virtual Lecture: Shakespeare’s Fathers
Location
VirtualDate & Time
4:30pm CDT April 15, 2021Contact
Michael Saenger
Associate Professor of English
saengerm@southwestern.edu
4:30pm CDT April 15, 2021
Virtual
Unravelling the Bard: Through Global Perspectives Lecture Series
More on Saenger’s talk “Shakespeare’s Fathers”
This lecture will examine the idea of partial paternity, or shared fatherhood, as something which exists prior to, contemporaneous with, and within, Shakespeare’s work. Through reference to biological, adoptive, symbolic, confused and shared fatherhood in Terence, Jonson and Shakespeare, Dr. Saenger will explore how the categories of legitimate and illegitimate fatherhood are established and troubled. Michael Saenger is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Early Modern Studies at Southwestern University. He teaches and writes on Shakespeare from a wide variety of perspectives. He is the author of two books, The Commodification of Textual Engagements in the English Renaissance (Ashgate, 2006), and Shakespeare and the French Borders of English (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and editor of Interlinguicity, Internationality and Shakespeare (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2014), as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and other literature.