Shakespeare Scholar to Discuss "Hamlet in Purgatory"

Noted Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt, the Harry Levin Professor of Literature at Harvard University, will discuss "Hamlet in Purgatory" at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, March 9, in Smith College's Wright Hall Auditorium. The lecture is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.
The general editor of the Norton "Shakespeare" and the associate general editor of the "Norton Anthology of English Literature," Greenblatt is a founder of the cultural studies journal "Representations" and a prolific and influential critic of English Renaissance literature. His books include "Shakespearian Negotiations," "Marvellous Possessions," "Renaissance Self-Fashioning," and the forthcoming "Hamlet in Purgatory."

February 25, 2000