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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0757  Friday, 1 September 2006

From: 		John F. Andrews <esuwdc@msn.com>
Date: 		Thursday, 31 Aug 2006 17:27:39 -0400
Subject: 	"The Shakespeare Wars"

Ron Rosenbaum Reports on "The Shakespeare Wars"

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, at 7:00 p.m.

500 17TH STREET NW (Corcoran Gallery of Art)

Members, $15; Others, $20

On theater vs. film, he is startling. On Shylock, he is fierce. On 
Harold Bloom, he is pugnacious. Anyone who read the New Yorker article 
he published two years ago about the scholarly issues that now divide 
editors of Hamlet, King Lear, and other classics will know that Ron 
Rosenbaum takes Shakespeare personally and offers an unforgettable way 
of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. Focusing on 
cutting-edge controversies about the source of the poet's enchantment, 
his astonishing use of a language he made uniquely his own, Mr. 
Rosenbaum spent seven years pursuing key partisans in today's debates, 
from the high tables at Oxford to a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop in a Deep 
South strip mall. Witty and provocative, Mr. Rosenbaum "comes to us in 
new waves of revelation," according to Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet 
Laureate. His best-selling Explaining Hitler has been translated into 
ten languages. He writes a column for the New York Observer, and his 
reflections have appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, and The 
Atlantic. In a dialogue that will serve as prelude to Shakespeare in 
Washington 2007, a city-wide festival that is being coordinated by the 
Kennedy Center, Mr. Rosenbaum will talk with John F. Andrews, Executive 
Director of ESU Washington and President of the Shakespeare Guild.

To reserve for any of the above events, which can be paid for with 
credit cards (we accept both MasterCard and Visa), all you need to do is 
respond to this message by phone, fax, or e-mail.

John F. Andrews, OBE
Executive Director, ESU Washington
President, The Shakespeare Guild
1604 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20009-2512
Phone 202 234 4602   Fax 202 234 4639
http://www.esuwdc.org  esuwdc@msn.com

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