The University of Delaware Library has announced a Shakespeare series talk by Lois Potter, “Let’s Talk of Graves: Shakespeare and the Celebration of Death,” at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room in Morris Library.

Since the “First Folio!” exhibition and the anniversary of Shakespeare's death coincide this year, Potter will discuss the relationship between the two events — in terms of death. What does Shakespeare say about death (particularly in epitaphs)? What do others say about him and about his works?  What exactly are people commemorating and how do they do it?

Lois Potter is the Ned B. Allen Professor Emerita of the University of Delaware. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Bryn Mawr College and her doctorate from Cambridge University.

Her publications include Text and Performance: Twelfth Night (Macmillan, 1985), the Arden edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen (1997, revised ed. 2015), Shakespeare in Performance: Othello (University of Manchester Press, 2002), and The Life of William Shakespeare (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

Potter edited Pericles for the third edition of the Norton Complete Works of Shakespeare (2015) Non-Shakespearean publications include A Preface to Milton (Longman, 1971, revised 1986), two edited volumes in the Revels History of Drama in English (1981, 1984), Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature 1641-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 1989), and two edited collections of essays on Robin Hood.

She is currently editing Eastward Ho for the Cambridge edition of the complete works of John Marston.

She has also been a frequent reviewer of theatre productions for Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, and The Times Literary Supplement.

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RSVPs are strongly encouraged via email at rsvp-library@winsor.lib.udel.edu. Walk-ins are welcome