Thinking Cap Theatre's Artistic Director Nicole Stodard talks with Vernon Dickson, Associate Professor of English at Florida International University about Shakespeare's problematic play The Taming of the Shrew. VERNON'S BIO Vernon Dickson is Associate Professor of English at Florida International University, where he recently served as Director of the Literature and Film Programs. His monograph, Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage explores theories and practices of imitation and emulation on the early modern stage. He has published articles and chapters related to Shakespeare, adaptation, popular culture, rhetorical theory, and emulation in Renaissance Quarterly, Borrowers and Lenders, Studies in English Literature, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and the edited collection Shakespeare and Geek Culture. Support for this program has been provided by the following Funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: John O. and Victoria C. Kirby Fund, Frederick W. Jaqua Fund, The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Broward Community Fund. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, Broward County Cultural Division and a grant from The Our Fund Foundation, an LGBTQ community foundation.

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