2004 University Lecture

Macbeth and the Show of Kings

Presented by William C. Carroll

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He has three books in progress: the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of Love’s Labour’s Lost, an edition of an eighteenth-century prose novella about Macbeth, and a critical book on succession and tragedy in Shakespeare, from which this year’s University Lecture derives. Professor Carroll has published articles on such topics as the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov, the textual problems of King Lear, the influence of Ovid on early Shakespearean drama, seventeenth and eighteenth-century appropriations of King Lear and Macbeth, and language and sexuality in Shakespeare. In 2000 he was invited to write the year’s work in review essay for Studies in English Literature.

In addition to the many talks and presentations he has made at meetings of the Modern Language Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, and the International Shakespeare Association and other fora, Professor Carroll delivered the opening plenary lectures at the International Conference on Earth-Moon Relationships, held at the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti at the University of Padua, Italy, and at the International Conference on Shakespeare and Tudor Theatrical Traditions, which marked the opening of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre in London in 1996. He was Visiting Professor of English at the Universita Degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, in April 1997.

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At Boston University, Professor Carroll served as Acting Associate Dean of the Graduate School in 1981-82 and as Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the Graduate School from 1982-1988. Professor Carroll was named founding director of the Boston University Humanities Foundation in 1981, serving in that position until 1988. He served as Chair ad interim of the Art History Department from 1987-89, and has been Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English for several years.

Professor Carroll lives in Newton, Mass. with his wife Carol, who is a public educator in Holliston Mass. His son David is a CAS junior at Boston University, majoring in religion. On the rare occasions that he is not thinking about Shakespeare, Professor Carroll serves as a referee and the league referee assignor for Newton Youth Soccer.