Featuring guest speaker
Lesley Peterson
“Austen Family Theatricals and Jane Austen’s Teenage Dramas“
Sunday, May 5, 1:00-3:00,
Temple Sinai,
500 Swift St., S. Burlington, VT
What can we learn about Jane Austen if, instead of asking whether she liked the theatre, we ask what kind of theatre she preferred? Does Aunt Norris speak for Jane Austen when she opines in Mansfield Park that “There is very little sense in a play without a curtain?” Or did Austen prefer to perform, and to write, plays designed for the curtain-less stage that Shakespeare wrote for? How did her encounters with the intense process of planning, rehearsing, and performing a family theatrical influence her writing?
The presentation will include opportunities for audience participation.
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Lesley Peterson is brought to us through a JASNA National Traveling Lecturer Grant. She is the editor of the Journal of Juvenilia Studies and before her retirement was Professor of English at the University of North Alabama. She teaches Shakespeare to children and has published or presented on the drama of Jane Austen, Elizabeth Carey, Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare, and Tennyson.
~ Free & open to the public ~ Light refreshments served ~
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