3:52 p.m., April 25, 2007--Kevin Burke, a doctoral candidate in medieval literature at UD, and Miranda Wilson, assistant professor of English at UD, will guide the discussion, “Shakespeare in Wartime,” at 4:45 p.m., Saturday, April 28, at the Delaware Theatre Company, 200 Water St., Wilmington. The forum will conclude Delaware Theatre Company's series of audience enrichment events, “Connections: A Community Conversation,” and will feature actors from the Delaware Shakespeare Festival reading selections from the plays.

Following the theatre's performance at 2 p.m. of William Shakespeare's Henry V adapted by Sanford Robbins, chairperson of UD's theatre department, the forum will explore how opposing sides have used Shakespeare's plays to make various political points during times of war.

Burke has taught Shakespeare and early British literature at UD and has presented papers on Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers at academic conferences in the United States and Canada. His review of The Poetics of Transubstantiation appears in the current issue of the Seventeenth Century Journal.

Wilson's current book project, Works of Darkness: Poison and Ways of Knowing in Early Modern England, explores the period's fascination with poison and how English writers helped shape the period's notions of causality, proof and certainty when writing about poison. Wilson's research and teaching interests also include gender, the history of science, architecture and cultural studies in early modern British culture.

Funded in part by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (302) 594-1100 or visit [www.delawaretheatre.org].