"Sleep in the Age of Shakespeare" by Garrett Sullivan

When?

Tuesday 7 May 2013, 18.00 to 22.00

Where?

Lecture Theatre G

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

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How, when, where, and with whom did people in the 16th- and 17th-centuries sleep?  And what did their slumbers mean to them?  This talk will show that sleep was intimately connected to major social and cultural issues, such as the regulation of desire; the relationship between the natural and supernatural worlds; the health of both body and soul; the nature of kingship; and the fundamental question of what it is to be human. It will also consider sleep's significance for understanding some of Western literature’s most famous characters, from Shakespeare’s Falstaff to Milton’s Adam and Eve.