Departmental Seminar: Romeo’s Woes & Ophelia’s Dole: Performing Noble and Poisonous Deaths in Shakespeare
Dear Colleagues and Students,
The Department of English cordially invites you to join our departmental seminar, Romeo’s Woes & Ophelia’s Dole: Performing Noble and Poisonous Deaths in Shakespeare, to be organised on 15 January 2026 (Thursday).
In conjunction with the Shakespeare Drama Competition 2026, this seminar offers an exciting opportunity to elevate your interpretative and vocal performance skills. Dive into the dramatic intensity of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable and tragic scenes and bring them to life with confidence and power! Applications close on 23 February 2026—don’t miss your chance to be part of this celebration of Shakespeare’s enduring legacy.
Date: | 15 January 2025 (Thursday) |
Time: | 3:00pm – 4:00pm |
Venue: | A315, S H Ho Academic Building, HSUHK |
Speaker: | Dr. Chloe Leung, Assistant Professor, Department of English |
Registration: | Complete the online registration form to reserve a seat. Available on a first-come first-served basis. |
Remarks: | 1 iGPS unit will be awarded to undergraduate students who attend the seminar |
Abstract
This one-hour seminar will train students to perform selected excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays, focusing on the dramatisation of death in Hamlet and Rome and Juliet. Students will analyse the excerpts and learn how to appropriately vocalise the plays’ tragic tone.
Bio
Dr. Chloe Leung holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, specializing in Modernist Literature. Her thesis investigates how modernist works (Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and Jean Rhys) deploy free indirect discourse to disentangle “illness” and “disability” from medical/scientific paradigms. Her latest article examines how un-speak-ability in Woolf moves away from an ableism that restricts sense-making intelligence. In addition to modernist studies, Dr. Leung is also interested in dance studies. She has examined how balletic movements contribute to Woolf’s representation of death in an article “A Rhapsody for Tuesday: Undercurrents in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931) and the Royal Ballet’s Woolf Works (2015)” (2022). Dr. Leung is currently an Assistant Professor at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
For enquiries, please feel free to contact us at eng@hsu.edu.hk.
