At 8:00 on Monday evening, December 14, at the NATIONAL ARTS CLUB, the GUILD
offered a sprightly SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE event with Marjorie Garber, a popular Harvard professor who has been described by the New York Times as “one of the most powerful women in the academic world.” She holds the William R. Kenan Jr. chair in English and American literature and oversees two prestigious interdisciplinary programs. The author of several influential books on the world’s leading playwright, among them Shakespeare After All(which won Phi Beta Kappa's 2005 Christian Gauss Award), Profiling Shakespeare (2008), and Shakespeare and Modern Culture (2008), Dr. Garber has appeared on PBS's Charlie Rose show and has been called “the liveliest, wittiest, and most stimulating of writers about our culture.” As she discussed such fascinating titles as Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992), Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (1995), Dog Love (1996), Symptoms of Culture (1998), Sex and Real Estate (2000), Academic Instincts (2001), A Manifesto for Literary Study (2003), and Patronizing the Arts (2009), Dr. Garber delighted her SOS attendees. And after her chat with the GUILD's John Andrews, she inscribed copies of two recent volumes, both of which were available for purchase at a discount.
Admission to this event was $25 for members of either the SHAKESPEARE GUILD or the ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION and $30 for non-members. Visit our Membership page for categories of affiliation with the GUILD. Once there you'll find a link to a page that will enable you to enroll as a constituent, book for programs, or do both.
