Poetry at Beinecke Library

By Kathryn James and David Kastan; from T he Huffington Post Shakespeare has always seemed too good to be true--or, for some, too good to be Shakespeare. The known biographical facts about the glover's son from the small midland English market town of Stratford-upon-Avon frustrate our desire for a robust biography of the author of the works that have become, as Arthur Murphy wrote in 1753, "a lay bible."

Please join us  February 15, at 4:30 pm on the Beinecke Library mezzanine for the opening of the Beinecke’s spring exhibition, “Remembering Shakespeare.”

Colson Whitehead, Reading Monday, February 6, time 4:30pm Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series Contact: louise.bernard@yale.edu

Remembering Shakespeare Wednesday, February 1 - Monday, June 4, 2012

Susan Barbour, "The Origins of the Prose Captions in H. D.'s Helen in Egypt", Review of English Studies, 2011 (advanced access published November 18, 2011). (Full text of the article is available online: Barbour-H. D.)