Emeritus Professor Chris Wortham will give a talk on Shakespeare's Maps in the Library Meeting Room, Reid Library Building on Tuesday 9th September at 7.30pm.
Shakespeare's Maps
The Shakespeare's Maps project is an outcome of Chris Wortham's belief that literature should not be viewed in isolation from other cultural forms and artefacts. In Shakespeare's time new political maps were being developed, but these subsisted side by side with somewhat earlier ones in the field of physical geography; and before either physical or political maps there had been religious and mythographical maps, based on the medieval mappa mundi. All of these were exciting and highly topical to Shakespeare’s generation.
In this illustrated talk Chris seeks to identify ways in which various kinds of maps figure purposefully in Shakespeare's plays.
About the speaker:
Chris Wortham was accorded the title of Emeritus Professor when he retired from the staff of English and Cultural Studies at UWA at the end of 2005 after almost thirty years of service. He founded the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group and later took on editorship of the distinguished academic journal, Parergon. He is a past President of the ANZ Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and has served on the executive of the ANZ Shakespeare Association. He continues to be active in his current role as Senior Honorary Research Fellow and is at present working on a book to be entitled Shakespeare’s Maps.
Please note that the ground floor entrance to the Library, nearest to the carpark, will be open from 7.30pm - 7.45pm.
Members: Free
Non-members: $5.00 donation
Tuesday 9 September 2008 at 7:30pm for 8pm
Library Meeting Room
Ground Floor
Reid Library Building
The University of Western Australia
