Conference: “Brave New World? Shakespeare 400 years on”
MONDAY 21 MARCH 2016, 6.30PM
BRITISH COUNCIl, 9 RUE DE CONSTANTINE, 75007 Paris
Registration required at programmes@britishcouncil.fr
In the last act of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Miranda who has lived her whole life in island exile, first meets a group of real, live, new people: ‘O brave new world,/ That has such people in’t!’, she says; ‘ ‘Tis new to thee.’ sighs her world-weary father, Prospero, who has seen a bit too much plotting in his life.
Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, someone, somewhere in the world is always encountering his words for the first time. This panel explores some ways in which Shakespeare continues to live and to be reinvented; it also examines the joys — and the frustrations — of living with Shakespeare 400 years on.
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