Overview

During Shakespeare’s time and ours, virtue, understood broadly as beneficial human capacity, has been variously debated, avoided, and affirmed as a foundational aspect of literature and life. Courage, judgment, trust, hope, and patience are among the virtues cultivated by Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which offers a window into the performance of virtue as both creative practice and serious play. In this free, public lecture, Professor Julia Reinhard Lupton will consider both theatrical making and literary education in terms of their potential for building more virtuous humans.