Thomas More was variously known to Elizabethan audiences as a learned author, skillful statesman, cunning prankster, misled traitor, or blessed martyr. What can Shakespeare's contribution to a mysterious manuscript probing his worldly rise and fall teach us about the lens through which the Bard examines the English monarchy of his time, and political things in general?

 
Lecturer:

Professor L. Joseph Hebert, St. Ambrose University

Bio:

L. Joseph Hebert is Professor and Chair of Political Science and Leadership Studies and Director of Pre-Law Studies at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, where he teaches courses in American Government, Law & Society, Constitutional Law, and Political Philosophy. He received his BA in Philosophy from the University of Maine in 1997, his MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 1998 and 2003, and was Postdoctoral Fellow with the Political Theory Project at Brown University from 2003 to 2005. Dr. Hebert’s essays and book reviews have appeared in The Journal of Politics, The Catholic Social Science Review,  Perspectives on Political Science, Interpretation, Moreana, Starting Points, and Law & Liberty, among others. His most recent book, Poetry and Politics in the Play Sir Thomas More, is forthcoming from The Catholic University of America Press.

For More Information

Contact Carson Holloway, Chair of the Department of Political Science, cholloway@unomaha.edu

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This Event is Sponsored by the Constitutional Studies Forum and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program.

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