A Protestant in the Garb of a Friar: Jacobean Dreams of Reformation in Venice

This talk is sponsored by the English Department in its series on Literature and Religion. David Read is Chair of the English Department at the University of Missouri. He teaches courses on a variety of Renaissance topics, and his research interests range from Elizabethan England to colonial America. He has published two books, Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World and New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing, as well as essays on Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain John Smith, and William Bradford.