Rachel Stenner from the University of Sussex is visiting the Department of Languages and Literatures and will give two lectures.
This session introduces William Baldwin’s satirical poem Beware the Cat (1561) through a screening of a performance at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Other Place that emerged through a project running from 2018-2023. Rachel will contextualise Beware the Cat and explain the genesis and rationale for the project as a whole. Conceived as an exercise in practice-as-research, this work led to insights around the text’s gender politics, spatial poetics, and ideas about knowledge acquisition. The screening and Rachel’s introduction will provide a case study upon which Tuesday’s talk, ‘Humans and Humanism in the Works of William Baldwin’, will draw.