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The Buffalo State Pedagogical Institute will present Integrating Shakespeare’s Sonnets into the Curriculum on Wednesday, May 18, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Bacon Hall 115. Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, first published in 1608, constitute one of the most eloquent and enigmatic collections of love poetry in literary history. As the world commemorates 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, we will explore ways to use individual sonnets, or the entire collection, in any classroom to examine language, gender, rhetoric, sexuality, social class, love, jealousy, desire, self-delusion, patriarchy, comedy, adapting to rules, breaking rules, racial identity, invention, soliloquizing, communicating, failing to communicate, unoriginality, working on commission, working for yourself, relating parts to wholes, reading carefully, aging, scholarly authority, proofreading, editing, trust, stalking, theft, self-promotion, textual analysis, dishonesty, compromise, and genius.

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Facilitators
Lisa Berglund, Chair and Professor, English
Anthony Chase, Assistant Dean, School of Arts and Humanities