Longtime fan of Shakespeare? New to his work? Catch the bug from watching or reading Hamnet? Join us for a talk on the women in Shakespeare's work. This talk is based Professor Rackin's book, Shakespeare and Women. She will discuss how the plays we choose to emphasize nowadays may tell us more about our own assumptions about women than they do about those of Shakespeare and his original audiences. 

Professor Phyllis Rackin, a former President of the Shakespeare Association of America and a Professor of English Emerita at UPenn, has published numerous scholarly articles on Shakespeare and related subjects in anthologies and in such journals as PMLA, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare-Jahrbuch. She has also published five books on Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Tragedies; Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles; and Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories, which she wrote in collaboration with Professor Jean E. Howard; Shakespeare and Women, and an anthology of essays on The Merry Wives of Windsor, co-edited with Professor Evelyn Gajowski . Her awards include an ACLS fellowship and a Lindback award for distinguished teaching.

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