Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Graymalkin and Other Shakespearean Celts"

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This was a lecture given by Andrew Hadfield on April 8, 2013.

He spoke on "Graymalkin and Other Shakespearean Celts."

Listen to the lecture:


Lecturer: Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012), Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540–1625 (2007); Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005); Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt and Salvage Soyl (1997); and Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (1994). He was editor of Renaissance Studies (2006-11) and is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement.