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CELEBRATED SPEAKERS

"SECOND CHANCES: SHAKESPEARE AND FREUD" WITH STEPHEN GREENBLATT

Lazaridis Hall, Tom Patterson Theatre
Saturday, August 23, 2025
10:30 a.m. to noon
Readers and Writers Week

The Meighen Forum brings together celebrated literary scholars, authors and artists to lead conversations on plays of this season. 


"Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud" with Stephen Greenblatt

Renowned Shakespeare scholar, general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and Harvard University Professor Stephen Greenblatt speaks with Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino in commemoration of Greenblatt’s new book, Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud. During this intimate event, the pair will discuss how “Shakespeare was the supreme virtuoso of the second chance and Freud was its supreme interpreter.”

Support for The Meighen Forum is generously provided by Kelly & Michael Meighen and the T.R. Meighen Family Foundation.


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