ALL is pleased to partner with local arts venues to build upon their performances with lectures that provide additional context and insight. These lectures are free, however registration is required. Tickets for performances are available through our partners.

Anthony Harding | 60 seats available
Friday, May 31
6:00pm - 6:30pm

More than any other play of Shakespeare’s, The Tempest celebrates the sheer magic of theatre. It transports us to a spirit-haunted island, governed by the powerful magus, Prospero, the rightful but exiled Duke of Milan. This Introduction will enlarge on the contexts of the play, and on the theatrecraft that makes it unique among Shakespeare’s works.

The Stratford festival on Film production of "The Tempest" will be shown at 7:00pm following the seminar. Tickets are available at the door. The price is $10 for ALL members. For more information about the film series, please visit justuscoffee.com/ntlive.

Anthony Harding

Anthony Harding taught English literature at the University of Saskatchewan from 1974 to 2005, and now lives in Wolfville. He has a BA from the University of Manchester and a PhD from Cambridge. He continues to study and write about the literature of the early nineteenth century, recently contributing a chapter on religion and classical mythology in Keats’s poetry to John Keats in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017).