From laughter to despair to horror, William Shakespeare has elicited every imaginable emotion from his audiences since his plays were first produced in the 16th century.This portrait of William Shakespeare by Gerard van der Gucht (1696–1776) is part of...
There will be a concert reading of John Milton’s masque “Comus” at the Yale Center for British Art’s newly refurbished lecture hall, on Wednesday, April 20, at 5:30 p.m. This will be the 19th annual staged reading by members of Yale’s English Department. ...
Citizens of the world must be as fierce in their passion to protect and preserve culture and cultural heritage as extremists are in their desire to destroy it, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told a packed audience at Yale on April 12.“Art, literature...
Of all the accolades she has received as the director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is especially proud of being awarded honorary citizenship of Timbuktu in Mali last summer in recognition of UNESCO’s support in rebuilding mausoleums there that had been...
Former students, friends, and colleagues gathered in large numbers at the end of February for a farewell party for former Deputy Dean of Yale College and Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon Ph.D. ’78, who recently retired after a career at the...
Noah Warren ’11, the 2015 Yale Younger Poet, returned to his former residential college on April 7 to read poems from his new collection, “The Destroyer in the Glass” — just published by Yale University Press — and discuss his craft.At a master’s tea in...