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Modern Acting Madness

Wednesday 9 February 2011, 6.00PM

Speaker(s): Adam Phillips, Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of English and Related Literature

This lecture offers some psychoanalytic reflections on modern theatrical versions of madness, looking in particular at versions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, as well as Gogol's Diary of a Madman, exploring the crucial relationship between madness and performance more generally.

Location: AEW/003, Alcuin East Wing

Admission: All welcome, admission free

Email: hugh.haughton@york.ac.uk