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MARCH 17 2020: President's Faculty Lecture with Dr. Paul Budra

The Shakespeare Conspiracy

We live in an era of conspiracy theories: vaccinations, 911, and even the shape of our planet. Shakespeare himself is the subject of such a conspiracy theory. The contrast between that theory and the conspiracies in Shakespeare’s age and plays can, I will argue, provide insight into the rhetoric and strategies of the modern conspiratorial imagination.