Dr. Carole Levin will present "Dreams, Monarchy and the Succession, and Shakespeare" on April 22, followed by a book signing and conversation over light refreshments. A Tudor historian with a dynamic speaking style, Levin will discuss England during the early modern era - a time of hope and anxiety over the future of the throne - and how those feelings were expressed onstage by William Shakespeare.

Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University, has held fellowships at the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and has received several awards for teaching excellence. Her areas of expertise include late medieval and early modern England and Europe as well as women's history.

Free and open to the public, this one-hour event begins at 4 p.m. at Wayne State University's McGregor Memorial Conference Center, and is sponsored by the Michigan Humanities Council, Wayne State's Department of History and Department of English, and GEMS: Group for Early Modern Studies. For more information, please call Renee Bricker at (313) 577-2525.

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