Stratford Festival Lecture — “Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud” with Stephen Greenblatt

STRATFORD FESTIVAL: READERS & WRITERS WEEK

"SECOND CHANCES: SHAKESPEARE AND FREUD" WITH STEPHEN GREENBLATT

Tom Patterson Theatre

Saturday, August 23, 2025

10:30 a.m. to noon

Readers and Writers Week
The Meighen Forum gathers acclaimed scholars, authors, and artists to spark conversations around this season’s plays.

Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud with Stephen Greenblatt
Harvard professor and world-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt —general editor of The Norton Shakespeare —joins Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino to mark the release of his new book, Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud. Together they explore how, in Greenblatt’s words, “Shakespeare was the supreme virtuoso of the second chance, and Freud was its supreme interpreter.”

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