南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院
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南京大学-伯明翰大学-凤凰出版集团 莎士比亚（中国）中心系列学术讲座第5讲
报告人：美国佛罗里达州立大学Robert O. Lawton杰出教授
《贝克特研究期刊》前主编
Stanley E. Gontarski
题目：Shakespeare and Beckett: Theater and Commerce
主持人：高研院副院长 从丛教授
时间：2017年4月25日（周二）下午16:10-18:00
地点：仙林校区逸夫楼C308 高研院报告厅
备注：英语演讲
讲座提要及演讲人简介：
William Shakespeare never published any of his plays, even as they were his
prime source of income. “The play’s the thing,” as Hamlet, his most famous
creation, has said. Samuel Beckett was born to a prosperous, middle class
Irish family, but his associations were with what Shakespeare might have
called “Fools.” Theatre also provided the bulk of his income and remains the
foundation of his international reputation. Each writer, finally, dominated
the theaters of his age.
Stanley E. Gontarski, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English,
Florida State University, specializes in twentieth-century Irish Studies, in
British, U.S., and European Modernism, and in performance theory. He edited
the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1989-2008, and currently serves as Co-
Editor with its publication by Edinburgh University Press. He has been awarded
four National Endowment for the Humanities research grants, has twice been
awarded Fulbright Professorships, has been Guest Editor of the following:
American Book Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Modern Fiction
Studies and most recently Drammaturgia. He is also General Editor book series
including Understanding Philosophy / Understanding Modernism (with Paul
Ardoin and Laci Mattison) from Bloomsbury and Other Becketts from Edinburgh
University Press.