"The Once and Future Shakespeare" Shakespeare 2016: Ben Crystal

As part of the W&L Shakespeare 2016 celebration Ben Crystal, noted actor, producer and expert on original pronunciation, will be giving a lecture entitled "The Once and Future Shakespeare" at the Lee Chapel on Monday, October 26, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. No tickets are required and it is free to the public.

Lecture supported by Department of Theater, Dance and Film Studies and the Pickens Fund.

Crystal is the artistic director of Passion in Practice and its Shakespeare Ensemble, and was the co-writer of Shakespeare’s Words (Penguin 2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (Penguin 2005) with his father David Crystal. His first solo book, Shakespeare on Toast – Getting a Taste for the Bard (Icon 2008) was shortlisted for the 2010 Educational Writer of the Year Award. 

A quartet series for Arden Shakespeare/Bloomsbury - Springboard Shakespeare was published June 2013, You Say Potato: A Book about Accents was published September 2014, and An Illustrated Dictionary of Shakespeare was published April 2015 with OUP.