Midnight Sonnets: Taylor Swift and Shakespeare

American pop icon Taylor Swift stands out as a musical powerhouse with unmatched success—selling hundreds of millions of albums, winning four Grammys for Album of the Year, shattering streaming records, and leading the world’s highest-grossing concert tour. She’s even been compared to William Shakespeare, with some suggesting she’s his modern-day counterpart. In this public lecture, Professor Liam Semler will explore the intriguing parallels between Swift and Shakespeare as seen online and in classrooms.