April 8th at 6 PM
South Texas College Mid-Valley Campus G-288
Will’n in Weslaco would like to thank the South Texas College Library for once again hosting our Public Lecture.
We are honored to announce this year’s speaker will be Professor William Morrisey. His talk is titled, "What's So Funny about the Law?"
Shakespeare's Politic Comedy can be purchased from St. Augustine's Press.
Will Morrisey held the William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the United States Constitution at Hillsdale College until his retirement in 2015. A native of Rumson, New Jersey, he served as Executive Director of the Monmouth County Historical Commission before his appointment at Hillsdale College in 2000. His M. A. and Ph.D in political science are from the New School for Social Research.
He is the author of eight books, including Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War; The Dilemma of Progressivism: How Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Reshaped the American Regime; and, most recently, Churchill and De Gaulle: The Geopolitics of Liberty and Herman Melville's Ship of State. Dr. Morrisey has been an editor of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy since 1979. His reviews and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Social Science and Modern Society, Law and Liberty, The New Criterion, and many other publications.
“Shakespeare is as great a philosopher as he is a poet - that, indeed, his greatness as a poet derives even more from his power as a thinker than from his genius for linguistic expression, and that his continuing appeal and influence is a reflection of his possessing great wisdom.”
(Craig, Leon. Of Philosophers and Kings, p. 4)
“Shakespeare’s Anatomy of Love”
Much Ado About Nothing
Professor Paul Cantor (University of Virginia)
April 6, 2021
“The Middle Ages produced a new kind of religion of love. And Shakespeare was a kind of heretic and trying to reform it.”
"Love, Drugs, & Politics"
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Professor Pamela Jensen (Kenyon College)
April 5, 2022
“Shakespeare’s greatness embraces us all… Shakespeare teaches us wisely about fundamental questions of politics… We can marvel at the acuteness of Shakespeare’s psychology.”
"Conquering Fortune: The Macbeths’ Enterprise"
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Professor Dustin Gish (University of Houston)
April 18, 2023
“Conquering fortune, rather than waiting for her to bestow her gifts in due time, is the Macbeths’ enterprise… How can order arise out of disorder; or, to put this in a Machiavellian way, how to acquire and maintain power?”
“What beast was ‘t then that made you break this enterprise to me?” (Lady Macbeth, Act I, Scene 7)
"Shakespeare's Comedy of Ancient Athens"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Professor Emeritus Jan Blits (University of Delaware)
April 9, 2024
“Shakespeare's sparkling comedy sets forth the love of the beautiful and the triumph of art that characterized ancient Athens at its glorious peak.”
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