Please mark your calendars for the following special lecture, sponsored by the Early Modern Group: “The Politics of Attention in Shakespearean Tragedy” by Professor Steven Mullaney of the University of Michigan. Professor Mullaney is the author of The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare (Chicago, 2015) and The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England (1988). He has also published essays about theater and reformation history, John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, the impact of the “discovery” of the Americas on French, Italian, Spanish, and English cultures, publics and counter-publics in reformation Europe, and the history of social emotions.