Public Lecture “Romeo and Juliet and the Invention of the Arabic Cultural Consumer"

Wednesday April 3, 5:00 PM, Communication Arts Center 108

Mark Bayer, Ph.D., professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will give the public lecture “Romeo and Juliet and the Invention of the Arabic Cultural Consumer,” on Shakespeare—specifically the first Arabic production of a Shakespeare play.

Bayer is the author of Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London, a finalist for the 2012 Freedley award, and editor of Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States.