Race, Power, and Poetics: Penelope Geng (Macalester College)
Seminar 3: Penelope Geng: Cripping Benefits in 'Timon of Athens'
By UCL English Department
Date and time
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:00 - 17:30 GMT
Seminar 3: Penelope Geng: Cripping Benefits in 'Timon of Athens'
Abstract: In act 1, Timon declares “we are born to do benefits” only to discover that in an ablenationalist state like Athens, benefits are available to the exceptional few. What lessons might we draw from the play’s bold depiction of nonnormative and nonproductive embodiment? How have recent productions (staged in this current age of ablenationalism) used casting, costume, music, and design to foreground the text’s representation of disability, race, and civic belonging?