FIRST WEDNESDAYS | Jan. 6, 2016
Middlebury College professor Timothy Billings paints a picture of Shakespeare’s life, poetry, and stagecraft over the course of an evolving career with an emphasis on the uncertainties, pleasures, challenges, and surprises they have held for generations of readers and audiences since his death four centuries ago this year.
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