J11-12：Other (Drama)
时间: 2022年7月14日, 从 13:00 到 16:00
地址: https://ntu-sg.zoom.us/j/83140337174
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J11. Shakespeare, Theatre, and Aging
This lecture examines the various attitudes towards the aging process evident in Shakespeare’s plays, many of which foreshadow contemporary attitudes about aging in compelling ways. Much Ado About Nothing famously describes the Seven Ages of Man, while King Lear in particular is intriguing for what it says about the difficulties of living with dementia, as well as the importance of estate planning, including wills, power of attorney, probate, and trusts – a lesson learned in Shakespeare’s own estate planning, where he famously willed his wife his “second best bed.”
J12. Tom Stoppard’s Jewish Roots – From Austria to Singapore to India to England
A fair amount of Stoppard criticism has focused on Stoppard’s relationship with India, including the time he spent there as a child, ages 4 to 8, after fleeing the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942. Stoppard’s two years in Singapore were themselves the result of military aggression, as his family was forced to leave Czechoslovakia under threat of German occupation and potential Nazi persecution. This lecture traces Tom Stoppard’s relationship with his Jewish roots and how being an immigrant to England impacted his work, looking primarily at his attitude towards British imperialism in Indian Ink (1995) but also more closely at his own brush with German imperialism in Leopoldstadt (2020).
Daniel Keith Jernigan is an Associate Professor with the Division of English in the School of Humanities and the School of Art, Design and Media (Courtesy Appointment) at Nanyang Technological University. His interests include drama and theatre studies, postmodernism and creative writing. Dr. Jernigan's critical work on Caryl Churchill and Tom Stoppard has been published in Modern Drama and Comparative Drama. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled Caryl Churchill: Epistemological Upheaval and Ideological Resistance. Dr Jernigan is also a published playwright who received his PhD from Purdue University, USA.
