In his long-awaited Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture, Ian Smith examines early modern methods of manufacturing blackness onstage, using the royal entertainments of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost as a dramatic point of departure to expand our knowledge of early modern race.
At Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001.
Registration includes admittance to a post-lecture reception in the MLK Event Space.