Shakespeare Lectures: Prof. Alexander Leggatt on King Lear

Schedule

Thu Mar 02 2023 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

Toronto Public Library - Toronto Reference Library | Toronto, ON

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Free lecture series on the Shakespeare plays featured in the 2023 Stratford Festival.
About this Event

Join us for a lecture by Prof. Alexander Leggatt on King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare's greatest and most devastating tragedies.

About the speaker:

Alexander Leggatt is Professor Emeritus of English at University College, University of Toronto. He has published a number of books and articles on English drama, mostly on the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. A few of his many books include Shakespeare's Comedy of Love; Shakespeare in Performance: King Lear; Shakespeare's Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays; and Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity.

No ticket required | All are welcome | Toronto Reference Library - Beeton Hall (1st floor)

This is an in-person program.

Toronto Public Library is committed to accessibility. If you identify as a person with a disability or as a person who is Deaf, and require an accessibility accommodation to participate in this program, please contact Accessibility Services by email, [email protected], or voicemail, 416-393-7099, to make a request. Please contact us at least three weeks in advance.

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Where is it happening?

Toronto Public Library - Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada

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Tickets

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Languages & Literature Department, Toronto Reference Library

Host or Publisher Languages & Literature Department, Toronto Reference Library

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