Janet Grayson Lecture in Literary Studies : Imagining Shakepeare's Prospero/Prospero's Shakespeare

Virginia Mason Vaughan is Professor of English at Clark University where she teaches courses in Early Modern English literature, with an emphasis on Shakespeare. She has published three books on Othello and co-edited The Tempest for the Third Arden Series. Her 2005 monograph, Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1470-1800, examines the representation of black Africans on the early modern stage. She recently completed two monographs: 'The Tempest':Shakespeare in Performance and Shakespeare in America (wth Alden T. Vaughan).