Indira Ghose
Emeritus professor of English and Shakespeare scholar specializing in early modern theatre and intellectual history, author of A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England.
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Jan 26, 2026 • 54min
770 Shakespeare and Civility (with Indira Ghose) | Robert W. Service and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Indira Ghose, Emeritus professor of English and Shakespeare scholar who studies early modern theatre, discusses civility as performance and its role in managing conflict. She contrasts competing models of manners, explores theatre as a lab for social tensions, and reads how plays stage pretense, sincerity, and exclusion. The conversation links early modern debates to modern questions about empathy and social cohesion.
