Sponsored by the UVA Library.

Virginia Mason Vaughan, Professor Emerita and Research Professor, Department of English, Clark University will give the 2016 Tracy W. and Katherine W. McGregor Distinguished Lecture in American History on "Shakespeare for the American People." This lecture will explore the many ways Shakespeare entered the American mainstream and examine the reasons why he remains an American icon even today.

The lecture is free and open to the public, but space is limited. An RSVP is appreciated—you can RSVP by email to McGregorLecture2016@virginia.edu . 

A reception will follow.

Virginia Mason Vaughan is Research Professor and Professor Emerita of English at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts where she taught for thirty-eight years. She is the author of Othello: A Contextual History (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and The Tempest for Manchester University Press’s ‘Shakespeare in Performance’ series (2011). With Alden T. Vaughan she also co-authored Shakespeare’s Caliban: A Cultural History (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and Shakespeare in America (Oxford Shakespeare Topics, 2012) and co-edited The Tempest for the Third Arden Series (1999; rev. ed. 2011). Her most recent publication is Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing, for Arden Shakespeare.