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February 13: “The Unpublished Virtues of the Earth” — Early English Botany and the Medical Marketplace of Shakespeare’s London
My work asks questions like: “What kinds of books did Shakespeare and his contemporaries reference when they had questions about science?”
IUPUI’s Prof. Sarah Neville says of her research: “As a researcher, the majority of my engagement with the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has been on the page rather than the stage; my primary investigations centre around the means by which literature comes down to us through the physical artifact of the printed book. Much of my work is interdisciplinary in nature, moving beyond the canonical texts and traditional literary criticism of English departments to consider the ways that people read books for facts as well as for fiction. My doctoral work explored the history of books of botanical and medical science in early modern England.”
When: Monday, February 13, 12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM
Where: IUPUI Campus Center 148
Free and open to all
