Juan Lamata: Renaissance Transformations - Iambic Lab 2023
Saturday, February 25, 2023
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Venue
The Independent Shakespeare Company Studio
3191 Casitas Avenue, Northeast Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Join scholar Dr. Juan Lamata for a discussion of trans identities and the transience of gender in Renaissance culture. Works discussed will include John Lily’s Galatea, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and other dramatic works from the period. He’ll be joined by ISC actors who will read passages that bring to life the plays being discussed.
Dr. Juan Lamata is an Assistant Professor of English at Cal State LA. He specializes in sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature in English and Spanish, and is working on a manuscript titled ”Masterless Renaissance: Rogue Form from Utopia to Hell.”