Led by a team of university scholars, Pre•Ambles are half-hour lectures that provide insight into a Chicago Shakespeare Theater production. Each talk bridges the worlds of scholarship and performance, examining the play in its historical context and the interpretive choices made by the director and design team.

January 19, 2013

Peter Kanelos is an Assistant Professor of Dramatic Literature, Theater History and Dramaturgy at Loyola University Chicago. His recent pubilciations include Thunder at a Playhouse: Essaying Shakespeare and the Early Modern Stage.

 
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January 6, 2013

Ira S. Murfin is a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre & Drama at Northwestern University, where his research focuses on talk as a performance strategy in the American avant-garde.

 
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December 22, 2012

Stephen Bennett is an adjunct faculty member in the English Department at Roosevelt University, where he teaches courses in writing, the English Renaissance, and literature surveys.

 
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