At the meeting on Thursday, 20th July, 2017, we were treated to a most excellent lecture by Kathleen O’Leary, from the University of Liverpool School of Continuing Education, entitled “An Introduction to Shakespeare’s World”. Kathleen’s enthusiastic and expert delivery kept us enthralled as she explained how Shakespeare would have kept his audiences entertained and satisfied…
Hazel Fort’s Thoughts on ‘Shakespeare’s World’
This lecture was eagerly awaited and did not disappoint – your chairperson was ecstatic, being almost a lifelong Shakespeare fan and a regular visitor to Stratford-upon-Avon. Kate’s view of the world that Shakespeare inhabited was fascinating. The transition from a world dominated by religion to a more secular one was the pivot on which her…