Lit Crawl NYC: Brooklyn
Saturday, May 19th, starting @ 6:00pm
Various locations in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill/Brooklyn Heights
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Michael Slater on Charles Dickens
04/17/11 11:00 AM
Michael Slater on Charles Dickens
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
(212) 415-5500
"No living person is a greater authority on the life and works of Charles Dickens than Michael Slater," wrote Claire Tomalin. Mr. Slater's biography of Dickens was published in 2009.
Dickens rejoiced in what he called "the fine mystery" of Shakespeare’s life—the fact that so little is known about this supreme artist whose work he venerated—and he mercilessly mocked contemporary endeavours to extrapolate Shakespeare's biography from his writings. For Dickens, Shakespeare was simply "that great master who knew everything" and he had an inexhaustible relish for and delight in, the language, the characters (those great "images of nature") and the stories to be found in Shakespeare's plays.
Dickens's writings are saturated with allusions, references and quotations from Shakespeare, notably from the great tragedies. In this talk, Professor Slater looks at how Shakespeare was mediated to Dickens—initially through his language-loving father (the model for Mr. Micawber), through childhood visits to the local playhouse, through study of Shakespeare on the page and above all, through experience of the plays in the great London theatres.
Date & Time: Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 11:00am