Shakespeare and Emotion — European style

Source : Digital Shakespeares Shakespeare and European Communities of Emotion Dr Erin Sullivan, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, e.sullivan@bham.ac.uk Dr Kristine Steenbergh, VU University of Amsterdam, k.steenbergh@vu.nl This seminar focuses on the importance of emotion in Shakespeare’s plays and poems and their significance within various European contexts. Acknowledging that emotion can be both culturally and historically contingent, as well as something shared across diffe..