UCI Festival of Discovery, October 3
Source: Festival of Discovery
I am giving my first “TEDx Talk” at UCI’s Festival of Discovery. My topic is “How (Not) To Break Up with Your Girlfriend: Shakespeare on Truth, Love, and Lies.” My talk is in the final session, on “Soul.” Why not?
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Hey, that’s my home town. I discovered the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the Walters Art Gallery.
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▶ Simon Russell Beale on the wedding scene in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ – YouTube.
Clips and commentary, by masters.
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▶ CounterBalance Theater’s The Odyssey – YouTube.
Please enjoy this amazing work by Annie Loui’s CounterBalance theater, with Zach Houston as Odysseus.
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Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies.
UCI alum Donovan Sherman takes up scenes of interpretation and interpretive deferral in Cymbeline.
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For UCI, a First Folio of the Bard : Alumnus’s Gift Was Valued at $241,000 in ’83 – latimes.
Article about initial gift in 1983.
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Garden Grove troupe offers a multicultural Shakespeare experience – The Orange County Register.
Loved this local production of RJ.
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How to Eat a Book – The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Thrilled to see David’s book reviewed by Fran Dolan.
“His focus on eating rather than food enables him to avoid the trap of festive description in order to explore the deeper pleasures of critique. He considers not food as a thing, but eating as a process, and a relationship “at once material and symbolic.”
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Rock Your World (Or, Theory Class Needs an Upgrade) – The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Morton reviews Shaviro — and gives academic theory a tongue-lashing.
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Thinking with Shakespeare 