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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Dear colleagues, </font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Please join us for a talk by Sarah Beckwith, Professor of English and Religion, and Chair of Theater Studies at Duke University:</font></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"Confession and Acknowledgment in Shakespeare's <i>Cymbeline</i>."</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Friday, Sept 25th at 3pm</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">HH 232</font></div></p></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Sarah Beckwith</span></font></span></strong><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">works on late medieval and early modern religious writing. She is particularly interested in Middle English religious writing in its fully cultural dimensions and in the intersections of writing and religious practice. Her work includes two</font></span><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> books, </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><i>Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in Medieval English Writing </i></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(</font></span><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">1993) and </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><i>Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi </i></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(</font></span><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">2001). She is currently working on a book on medieval and Renaissance drama centering on Shakespeare and the transformation of sacramental culture.</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">We look forward to seeing you there!</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">For more information, please email Rebecca Tierney-Hynes at <a href="mailto:rtierney@uwaterloo.ca">rtierney@uwaterloo.ca</a>.</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div> <!--EndFragment--> <br></div></body></html>