Lecture on Festivals in 1600s England

from FOLGER INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.):

"May Games and Robin Hood: Festive Theatricality in Early Modern England"

Board Room

Friday, May 22, 2015, Noon

Erika T. Lin is a 2014–2015 Mellon Long-term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library and an Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. Her fellowship project, "Seasonal Festivity and Commercial Performance in Early Modern England," reconstructs the performance dynamics of May games, Robin Hood gatherings, morris dances, and other early modern seasonal practices and analyzes their impact on the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

http://www.folger.edu/events/fellows-research-colloquia-erika-t-lin