Englische Renaissance

The good book with Manfred Pfister
Moderation: Sandra Richter and Denis Scheck

Hardly any other epoch shows the development of the modern European world with its highs and lows in a more concentrated way than the English Renaissance. Within a very short space of time, the island mutated into the European engine of capitalism, art and science. In over 500 selected, introduced and translated original texts, Manfred Pfister unfolds a panorama ranging from Chaucer and Erasmus to Shakespeare and Milton. Manfred Pfister, professor emeritus of English and long-time co-editor of the Shakespeare Yearbook, is considered one of the leading experts on the period. He will be joined in conversation by Sandra Richter, Director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach, and literary critic and author Denis Scheck. From the Renaissance, the evening's guests will embark on further excursions, for example into the early history of our language with Laura Spinney's book "The Big Bang of Our Language", into the English Renaissance with Stephen Greenblatt's new book "The Dark Renaissance" about Shakespeare's antagonist Christopher Marlowe, through to Silke Scheuermann's new volume of poetry, "Zweites Buch der Unruhe", in which she also deals with a revolution in thought, which was also triggered by the Renaissance.