Nicholas Bellinson will deliver his lecture "The Womb of Time: Drama as Pregnancy in Shakespeare and Elsewhere." This lecture is free and open to the public.

Mr. Bellinson offers the following description: What kind of relationship to time underlies the urge to attend the theater? Shakespeare points to this question in various plays through the metaphor of time's pregnancy. Over and over, his characters stage this very relationship to time, as we will see in four plays: Othello, Hamlet, As You Like It, and Love's Labour's Lost. We will then ask what philosophical attitudes arise when we consider time to have or not to have the metaphorical capacity for pregnancy.