Lehmann, CourtneyUniversity of Minnesota Duluth. Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies2024-04-192024-04-192024https://hdl.handle.net/11299/262409Thursday, 18 April at 5:00 pm; Kathryn A. Martin Library Rotunda. Featuring Dr. Courtney Lehmann. Dr. Lehmann is the Tully Knoles Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of the Pacific.Film directors from across the world have long adapted Shakespeare's plays as a way of providing political and social commentary. Dr. Lehmann's talk focuses on Indian director Deepa Mehta, who weaponizes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to highlight the plight of widows in pre-Independence and modern-day India in Water (2006). Water is a poignant illustration of Shakespeare's legacy of cultural subversion and political engagement across time, place, and media.enPostersUniversity of Minnesota DuluthOther