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Join Dr. Catherine Loomis, as she presents "The Queen's Knees: An Open and Shut Case" at Agecroft Hall. A reception with light refreshments will follow.

This event is presented by the Richmond branch of the English-Speaking Union (ESU) and is part of ESU National's prestigious Evelyn Wrench Lecture series.

Tickets:

$15/person for the general public

Free for ESU Richmond Branch members (please contact ESU Richmond Branch to reserve your free ticket)

About Catherine Loomis

Dr. Catherine Loomis has taught at the University of New Orleans and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and currently teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen (2010) and the editor of William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume (2005) and Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage (2015) as well as essays on Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, and theater history. She has lectured on Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth at the Folger Institute in Washington, DC, and at several universities. She is currently working on a collection of early modern poems and prose works in which male authors adopt a female narrative voice.

Cover image is taken from a photograph of the "The Pelican Portrait" oil painting, generally attributed to artist Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619).