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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr. Ina Habermann (University of Basel): 
 "Roads to Redemption in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Two Noble 
 Kinsmen"
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DESCRIPTION:Roads to Redemption in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night
 ’s Dream and Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen Prof
 . Habermann&#8217\;s  paper revisits the debate about a religiously h
 eterodox Shakespeare\, arguing that Shakespeare had an investment in r
 ecusant culture. Thriving on clandestine activities and the resignific
 ation of spaces for Catholic worship\, recusant culture was intrinsica
 lly theatrical\, possibly suggesting to Shakespeare the &#8216\;as if&
 #8217\; that transforms the stage into a complex space for the perform
 ance of eschatological geographies. In his comedies and romances\, Sha
 kespeare made the most of the malleable and interactive Catholic conce
 ption of space to stage roads to redemption. The woods as a sacred spa
 ce with recusant resonances become a refuge for exiles\, a destination
  for pilgrims and a setting for transformation and redemption. In A Mi
 dsummer Night’s Dream\, Shakespeare dramatizes\, and celebrates the 
 redemptive qualities of the alternative space of the woods. Potential 
 suspicions about a recusant agenda are deflected by the fanciful fairy
  world and the appeal to the imagination. The play’s optimistic traj
 ectory promises harmony and the healing of rifts and divisions. By 161
 3\, however\, in The Two Noble Kinsmen which revisits the Dream\, the 
 sacred woods have been superseded by sectarian battlefields\, the ench
 antment has gone\, and the road to redemption is lost from view. _____
 ___ Ina Habermann is Professor of English literature at the University
  of Basel. Her publications include Staging Slander and Gender in Earl
 y Modern England (Ashgate 2003)\, Myth\, Memory and the Middlebrow: Pr
 iestley\, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness (Palgrave Ma
 cmillan 2010) and Wartime Cinema\, Englishness and Propaganda: Michael
  Powell and the ‘Pressburger Touch’ (Manchester UP 2025). She is c
 o-editor\, with Michelle Witen\, of Shakespeare and Space. Theatrical 
 Explorations of the Spatial Paradigm(Palgrave Macmillan 2016)\, and h
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