Welcome, everyone, to this performance of British literature. . .
OSU Senior Michael Li guides us through a powerful spoken-word performance that grapples with four distinct pieces of literature from premodern British literary history. Punctuated with insightful commentary and analysis, Michael takes the listener on a journey — from an Old English elegy to the later medieval troubadours, onto Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World and finally closing with Eliza Haywood’s novel Fantomina. Gracefully paced and authoritatively performed, this concert captures the diversity of premodern British literature while connecting those texts to our world in thought-provoking ways.
Michael Li is a fourth-year English major with a concentration in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy. Though the future certainly holds many unknowns, he plans to make his way to law school and to hopefully narrow down his future path from there. In the meantime, he enjoys pretending to be a lawyer through extracurricular involvements.