Bosco, Chalfant, & Easton Read Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare at Library for Performing Arts Mar. 2

On Monday, March 2, 2009, 6:00 P.M. in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents "O, My Offense Is Rank": Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare Speeches: Excerpts from Hamlet, Henry IV, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Othello, and other plays. The event is part of the series "Mystic Chords of Memory": Abraham Lincoln and the Performing Arts.

The evening will feature readings by Philip Bosco, Kathleen Chalfant, Richard Easton and Harold Holzer, Lincoln scholar and member, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

The Bruno Walter Auditorium is located on 111 Amsterdam Avenue (south of 65th Street) and admission is free and first come, first served.

The program will show how Lincoln used the bard to win a court case, found solace in the speeches when his son Willie died, and analyzed and critiiqued the plays.

Programs take place in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Admission to all programs is free and generally first come, first served, although tickets are occasionally required. When tickets are required, it will be noted in the individual listings. For information, call (212) 642-0142 or e-mail lpaprog@nypl.org. Programs are subject to change or cancellation without notice. For Monday programs, use Library entrance at 111 Amsterdam Avenue, just south of 65th Street.

For more information,
http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/eventdesc.cfm?id=4958

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