Christine de Pisan, Book of Prayers and Moral Lessons, 1537. Case MS 5326.
The Center for Renaissance Studies hosts a wide variety of afternoon or evening lectures and seminars, full-day symposia, multi-day conferences, and multi-week summer seminars and institutes.
Some programs are open to all, while some have limited enrollment. Please check the individual program listings below for registration information.
Shakespeare Project of Chicago
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Saturday, December 16, 2017
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Free and open to the public; no registration required
It is Christmas night at the Windmill Inn, Shakespeare’s favorite pub in Stratford-Upon-Avon. While the Bard quaffs his favorite beverage at his usual table, he encounters a series of visitors, each with an unrealized dream and unanswered questions.
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Free and open to the public; no registration required
“Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s sprightly waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible: a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.”
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
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“Never were finer snares for womens’ honesties
Than are devis’d in these days; no spider’s web’s
Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis’d
To catch love’s flesh-fly by the silver wing”
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Free and open to the public; no registration required
“ ‘I can see he’s not in your good books,’ said the messenger.
‘No, and if he were I would burn my library.’”
A staged reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, directed by Peter Garino.