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Shakespeare and the Essex Rebellion: A Discussion with Clare Asquith, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith

Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 35 p.m.

Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
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Join us as noted Shakespearean scholar Clare Asquith speaks about her latest book, Shakespeare and the Resistance. Lady Oxford focuses her research on Shakespeare’s narrative poems—”Venus and Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece”—as works that addressed the tyrannical power of the Cecils under Queen Elizabeth I and played an important role in the Essex Rebellion of 1601.

Some copies of her book will be available for sale.

This event is sponsored by the Campion Institute, the Tau Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Office of the Vice President of Mission Integration and Identity.