8 Oct 2021
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Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb – Lord Burghley 500th Anniversary Lecture Series
'Shakespeare’s World'
On William Shakespeare’s death, Ben Jonson, paid the bard a compliment that continues to define our attitude to Shakespeare: ‘He was not of an age, but for all time’. Shakespeare’s talent is so rare that it is easy to think of him as a man out of time. But, in fact, he was born in a rural market town in the early years of Elizabeth I’s reign, and formed by the social, religious, and political worldview of the period – the very same world inhabited by his namesake William Cecil, Lord Burghley. To examine this world – a time of huge demographic, economic, social, religious, and cultural change – tells us much, in turn, about Shakespeare and Burghley themselves.
Suzannah Lipscomb’s lecture will begin at 7pm and take place in St Martin's Church, Stamford, PE9 2LF, with drinks beginning at the Church at 6pm. Proceeds for this lecture will be made to the St Martin's Church Conservation Trust.
