Professor Tiffany SternWednesday 21 May 2014, 6-7.15pm
Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London
When the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet announces that the performance will last two hours, what does Shakespeare mean? Join Professor Tiffany Stern at the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, as she asks how time was understood in an age of sandglasses, sundials and inaccurate clockwork. Considering the sound and the look of the instruments of time, this event will ask about Shakespeare’s works ranging from the practical to the editorial and to the analytical. How long did Shakespeare’s plays take to perform? Why are Shakespearean characters associated with ways of measuring time? What textual cruxes in Shakespeare’s plays relate to timepieces? And what did terms like an hour, a minute, or a second actually convey to a Shakespearean audience?
About the Speaker:
Tiffany Stern is Professor of Early Modern Drama at the University of Oxford. Her books include Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (2007) and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009). She has edited a number of plays and written over forty articles and chapters on 16th, 17th and 18th century literature.
Admission to this event is Free but you are required to register on the British Academy website in order to book online.
