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Paul A. Cantor discusses Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. Paul Cantor is the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and author of books on romanticism (Creature and Creator), Shakespeare (Shakespeare's Rome, Shakespeare: Hamlet), popular culture (Gilligan Unbound) and Austrian economics (Literature and the Economics of Liberty) as well as a host of articles. He is giving a course (Government 1087) at Harvard this term on "Shakespeare and Politics."
About PCG at Harvard
The Program on Constitutional Government is associated with the Center for American Political Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. It was founded in 1985 by Harvey Mansfield and William Kristol, and guided since then by Mansfield and R. Shep Melnick of Boston College. The Program promotes the study of the U.S. Constitution and its principles, combining the fields of political theory and American government. It brings visiting professors to Harvard, invites guest speakers, and supports postdoctoral fellowships. It seeks to improve the access of Harvard students to political debate by ensuring that the principle of diversity is not confined to favored classes of Americans but extended to political opinion—since it is the interest of all that both sides be heard.
Visit harveymansfield.org for additional videos and related material.
Paul A. Cantor discusses Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. Paul Cantor is the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and author of books on romanticism (Creature and Creator), Shakespeare (Shakespeare's Rome, Shakespeare: Hamlet), popular culture (Gilligan Unbound) and Austrian economics (Literature and the Economics of Liberty) as well as a host of articles. He is giving a course (Government 1087) at Harvard this term on "Shakespeare and Politics."
About PCG at Harvard
The Program on Constitutional Government is associated with the Center for American Political Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. It was founded in 1985 by Harvey Mansfield and William Kristol, and guided since then by Mansfield and R. Shep Melnick of Boston College. The Program promotes the study of the U.S. Constitution and its principles, combining the fields of political theory and American government. It brings visiting professors to Harvard, invites guest speakers, and supports postdoctoral fellowships. It seeks to improve the access of Harvard students to political debate by ensuring that the principle of diversity is not confined to favored classes of Americans but extended to political opinion—since it is the interest of all that both sides be heard.
Visit harveymansfield.org for additional videos and related material.
