RN Books and Arts Live: Shakespeare in Contemporary Culture with Peter Holbrook and Sarah Kanowski

Date: Thursday 8 September, 2016
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Auditorium 1, SLQ, Level 2, State Library of Queensland
Cost: Free. Book tickets here: https://uplit.com.au/bookings/book?presenter=AUBWF&event=16143

Join RN Books and Arts Sarah Kanowski as she discusses the work and influence of William Shakespeare 400 years after his death with Professor Peter Holbrook, Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at the University of Queensland.

Some of Professor Holbrook’s recent publications include English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom (London: Bloomsbury/Arden Shakespeare, 2015) and Shakespeare’s Creative Legacies: Artists, Writers, Performers, and Readers, co-edited with Paul Edmondson (London: Bloomsbury/Arden Shakespeare, 2016). Shakespeare’s Individualism appeared with Cambridge University Press in the U.K. in 2010. Fans of the Bard are encouraged to celebrate all things Shakespeare at this very special free event.

Peter Holbrook is a Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at The University of Queensland, and directs a research unit there focused on the history of emotions Peter is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has written widely for the print media.

Sarah Kanowski presents the Books and Arts program on ABC RN on Saturdays. She has a Masters Degree in English from Oxford University, has edited Island magazine in Tasmania and also herded goats in Chile.