2026 Alice Griffin Shakespeare Lecture
Schedule
Wed May 13 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC+12:00Location
B401-401 | Auckland, AU
About this Event
Professor Evelyn Tribble (University of Connecticut)
Venue: University of Auckland B401 | 20 Symonds St, Auckland
Lecture hall: Lecture Theatre 401-401
Time: Lecture 6pm | Drinks Reception 7pm
About the lecture:
Shakespeare as Reviser: The Merry Wives of Windsor
The quarto text of Merry Wives of Windsor has usually been viewed as a garbled or debased version of its folio counterpart. In this lecture, Dr. Evelyn Tribble argues that the folio and the quarto share a common (now lost) origin, and that the folio represents a deliberate revision for a Jacobean court performance. Studying the two texts side by side provides a window into Shakespeare’s habits of revision, including expansion of comic parts, incorporation of material for a courtly audience, and an expanded and elaborate final production piece.
About the speaker:
Evelyn Tribble (Lyn) is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She specializes in Shakespeare and has published extensively on distributed cognition, cognitive ecologies, and skill. Key publications include "Distributing Cognition in the Globe," Shakespeare Quarterly, 2006; Cognitive Ecologies and the History of Remembering (with Nicholas Keene, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare’s Theatre: Thinking with the Body (Bloomsbury, 2017). She is collaborating with John Sutton on a short monograph on Cognitive Ecologies and is working on an edition of Merry Wives of Windsor.
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Getting to the venue: The Faculty of Arts and Educations' buildings are conveniently located at the heart of the University's City Campus and are easily accessible via many forms of public transport. For further information on public transport schedules, visit the Auckland Transport website. For those driving in, further information on parking options can be found here.
Where is it happening?
B401-401, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland, New ZealandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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