Christopher Warren: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

Christopher Warren: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

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Christopher Warren: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

Christopher Warren: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

Sat, Mar 28, 2015, 10:00am
  • Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Humanities Center at CMU
  • Trust Arts Education Center
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    Festival Pass: $20 for general admission; $10 for students

Historians and literary critics have long studied the way that early modern people associated with each other and participated in various kinds of formal and informal groups. Using modern technology, Christopher Warren, who teaches Shakespeare and Milton at Carnegie Mellon University, has analyzed vast quantities of data to establish how people in early modern England were connected. He will introduce a public, digital humanities project that seeks to redress the common caricature of Shakespeare’s world that it consists of, in Adam Gopnik's words, "populated by the Queen and Ben Jonson and the Dark Lady and the Bard and a theatre full of groundlings," and to flesh out the social networks of the real early modern Britain.

Trust Arts Education Center, Fourth Floor

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