The IC Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium announces a presentation by Dan Brayton, Professor of English at Middlebury College, on Friday, April 28th, at 5:30 p.m. in the Clark Lounge, campus center. All with an interest in Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, and environmental issues in literature are welcome.
Professsor Brayton's topic is "Shakespeare's Fish Ponds: Matter, Metaphor, and Ecology." The presentation will be a contextual reading of Shakespeare’s metaphorical references to fish ponds, with particular attention to King Lear and The Winter’s Tale, looking closely at several dazzling yet obscure passages that reveal a complex set of cultural associations between fish, land ownership, and sexuality.
Professor Brayton is a leading ecocritic —a literary critic focusing on the significance of environmental representations in literature —whose most recent book is Shakespeare's Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration (University of Virginia Press, 2012).
Image: John Dennys, The Secrets of Angling (London 1613), title page.
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