"Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral:" Authenticating Shakespeare at Winston-Salem's Pageant of 1916 Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 5:30 p.m. |
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Members/students free, non-members $5. Free for Wake Forest University faculty/staff/students. |
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In 1916, many communities recognized the tercentenary of William Shakespeare's death with pageants, but few rivaled Winston-Salem's celebration held on the campus of Salem College. It included reproductions of several buildings from Stratford-Upon-Avon, an outdoor production of The Winter's Tale, and elaborate gardens supervised by Katharine Smith Reynolds, who selected verses to accompany flowers grown in Reynolda's greenhouses. Susan Harlan, assistant professor of English at Wake Forest University, will explore themes of authenticity and reproduction in historical pageantry of the period. |
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