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SUMMARY:Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark – talk series
DESCRIPTION:The Institute\, in collaboration with Georgetown University\, is holding a series of talks on ‘Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark’ as part of The Future of the Humanities Project and The Humanities Initiative. \nShakespeare and Eden: Botanical Ornament and the Book of Nature in Cymbeline – Dr. Bonnie Lander Johnson\n\nShakespeare’s Cymbeline is rich in botanical ornament and symbolism. Flowers and trees appear in the play’s prophesies\, its funerary rituals\, and its numerous domestic settings: such as the courtly garden\, bedroom scenes and the pastoral world of Imogen’s Welsh cave. Cymbeline is also the most Christological of all the tragicomedies—through its providentialist narrative and its setting at the time of Christ’s birth. \n\nIn this discussion Dr. Bonnie Lander Johnson will examine the interdependence of these two features within the context of late-sixteenth century thinking about the incarnate reality of creation—what theologians describe as the Book of Nature. Drawing on printed herbals\, biblical exegesis\, and theories of ornament\, she will argue that in Cymbeline the pre-Reformed theological poetics of the hexaemeron resurface. Reworked from within the secularized demands of the popular theater\, these poetics can be seen in the prophetic language of the King as tree\, in the folk flower rituals surrounding love and death\, and in the Queen’s proto-scientific gardening—all of which were forms of early modern botanical practice that searched for divine truths in the ornaments of the created world. \nDr. Bonnie Lander Johnson is director of studies in English and professor in Newnham College\, Cambridge University. She works on early modern theater and the histories of science and religion. She is the author of Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (2015) and the editor of Blood Matters (2018). She is currently editing The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants \, completing the monograph Shakespeare’s Botany and Belief\, and editing a multi-volume series of prose fiction by Catholic women for Catholic University of America Press. \nProfessor Michael Scott is Senior Dean\, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. \nThis event is free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. Please register here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/christian-shakespeare-question-mark-talk-series-6/
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SUMMARY:Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark – talk series
DESCRIPTION:The Institute\, in collaboration with Georgetown University\, is holding a series of talks on ‘Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark’ as part of The Future of the Humanities Project and The Humanities Initiative. \nNatural and Supernatural Happiness in “The Taming of the Shrew” – Andrew Moran\n\nAlthough Lucentio quickly forgets about “that part of philosophy / … that treats of happiness / by virtue specially to be achieved\,” Shakespeare does not. In The Taming of the Shrew the conversation about whether to study Aristotle or Ovid introduces a running juxtaposition of the two authors and a subtle treatment of happiness and its causes. Petruchio triumphs because he unites philosophy and poetry\, virtue and pleasure\, logic and metamorphosis. His art of love effects Katherine’s transformation\, freeing her from being “curst.” \nAndrew Moran\, associate professor of English at the University of Dallas\, in conversation with Professor Michael Scott\, will explain why liberation from a curse signifies supernatural as well as natural happiness in The Taming of the Shrew. The difference between Baptista’s daughters points to conflicting doctrinal claims about how baptism prepares Christians for beatitude. Bianca only appears “white\,” as in forensic justification; Katherine is “purified” (katharos). At the closing wedding feast\, a suggestive image\, the soul which is transformed and made virtuous\, exults. \nAndrew Moran is an associate professor of English at the University of Dallas. He is the director of the summer programs Classical Education in Rome and Shakespeare in Italy at the UD Rome Campus and the author of essays on Shakespeare\, Jonson\, Milton\, and Waugh. He is currently writing a book on Shakespeare’s comedies\, Shakespeare and the Game of Life: Figures of Speech\, Modes of Comedy\, and the Playful Pursuit of Happiness. \nProfessor Michael Scott is Senior Dean\, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. \n\nThis event is free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. Please register here. \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/christian-shakespeare-question-mark-talk-series-7/
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