Professor Charlotte Canning on Shakespeare and Chautauqua

Folger Shakespeare Library 75th Anniversary

Performance as Public Practice professor Charlotte Canning is featured on the Folger Shakespeare Library website as part of its 75th Anniversary series.

Shakespeare in American Life is a series of programs commemorating the Folger Shakespeare Library's 75th anniversary. It includes an interactive educational website that allows visitors to explore Shakespeare in American life through everything from timelines, to maps, to FAQs, to works of art, to quips, insights, and comments by Americans about Shakespeare.

Professor Canning has contributed to this anniversary project by commenting on Shakespeare and Chautauqua.

Visit the Shakespeare in American Life website to listen to Professor Canning speak about the origins of Chautauqua and how Shakespeare came to the Chautauqua circuit.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, is a world-class research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. It is home to the world's largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art.

The Folger is administered by a Board of Governors under the auspices of Amherst College, which is both Henry Folger's and Charlotte Canning's alma mater.

To learn more about Charlotte Canning, visit her bio page on the Department of Theatre and Dance website.