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November 12, 1992                                      
Shakespeare series to begin Nov. 17                    
                                                       
     A series of six lectures on "Shakespeare From an International
Perspective" will be presented at the University beginning in November
and continuing through May.                                  
     First in the series, "First Folio of Shakespeare," will be
presented by Peter Blayney of the Folger Shakespeare Library at 4 
p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Room 205 of the Kirkbride Lecture Hall.
     Born and educated in England, Blayney started out studying
physics, left that to train as an actor in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre
School (from which he graduated in 1965), and went on to study English
literature.                                                  
     He received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1979 for his
work on "Nicholas Okes and the First Quarto of King Lear," which
Cambridge University Press published in 1982.                
     Now recognized as the foremost authority on the book trade in
Shakespeare's time, Blayney combines a vast knowledge of Renaissance
printing and publishing with a sensitive understanding of literary
texts, especially those of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
     Among his other publications are books on the Shakespeare First 
Folio and the bookshops in Paul's Cross Churchyard and many essays and
reviews. He is currently Scholar in Residence at the Folger  
Shakespeare Library.                                         
     The series will continue with a lecture by Jean-Marie Maguin of
Paul Valery University in France, Wednesday, Dec. 2 (topic to be
announced); "Shakespeare's Sonnets," with Jerzy Limon of the 
University of Gdansk in Poland, Wednesday, Jan. 13; "Shakespeare and
the Designs of Empire," by Michael Neill of the University of Auckland
in New Zealand, Wednesday, Feb. 24; "The Politics of Marlowe's
Tamburlaine and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar," with Avraham Oz of Haifa
University in Israel, Monday, April 5; and "Tradition and Subversion
in Romeo and Juliet," by Francois Laroque of the University of Paris,
Wednesday, May 5.                                            
     Sponsored by the Department of English and supported in part by a
grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, the series is free and open
to the public.                                               
     For more information, call the Department of English at 
831-2361.