English Literature Virtual Twilight Lecture- Death in Shakespeare

Our series of virtual twilight lectures are aimed at students currently studying at Level 3, to complement their studies and/or to provide an insight into studying a range of disciplines at degree level.

The English Literature twilight lecture delivered by Dr Jennier Young is entitled 'Death in Shakespeare and Jacobean Tragedy'. Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy is dominated by tragic heroes such as Hamlet, Othello and the Duchess of Malfi and their inevitable confrontations with death. This talk will consider Renaissance ideas and beliefs surrounding death and the afterlife and the way Shakespeare and his contemporaries use death to explore what it means to be human.

Join us on the 9 March at 16:30 - 17:30. We welcome bookings for this event from students as well as teachers and advisers.