Brooklyn Public Library In Association With The Public Theater Presents "What is the City but the People? Shakespeare, Art, and Citizenship"

With Stephen Greenblatt, Jill Lepore, and Eisa Davis

In the wake of the U.S. elections, we sit down with Professor Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics and The Swerve; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jill Lepore (These Truths: A History of the United States); and playwright and actor Eisa Davis (The Secret Lives of Bees) for an in-depth look, with brief readings from Shakespeare’s plays and poetry, at the views and versions of citizenship, social organization, and individual human dignity in Shakespeare’s plays, as well as the role of art and humanities in a modern democracy.

Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.