Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture

07 July 2010, 18:00 - 19:00

Event Type: University Trust Fund Event

Speakers

Professor Michael Slater (Birkbeck College & Institute of English Senior Research Fellow), 'Dickens's Shakespeare'

Description

In this lecture Michael Slater, author of an acclaimed new biography of Dickens, will seek to explore the nature of the great novelist's lifelong passion for Shakespeare's work, his extraordinary in-depth knowledge of it as reflected in his extensive use of it in his own writings, and his vivid sense of being, in certain important respects, Shakespeare's successor.  Professor Slater will also be making reference to the closeness of Dickens's involvement with some of the leading contemporary interpreters of Shakespeare, notably his beloved friend William Charles Macready, 'the eminent tragedian'.

Free and open to the public. If you would like to attend please contact Jon Millington at the Institute of English Studies; tel. +44 (0)207 664 4859.

Venue : The Beveridge Hall (Senate House, Ground Floor)

South Block of Senate House, Ground Floor
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