Danielle A. St. Hilaire will offer the lecture “‘The Play’s the Thing’: Aesthetics and Shakespeare’s Alternate Realities” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10, in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts on the Penn State Altoona campus.

St. Hilaire is an associate professor of English and chair of the English department at Duquesne University. She is the author of “Satan's Poetry: Fallenness and Poetic Tradition in Paradise Lost” and is currently at work on her new book “The Art of Pity: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature,” from which this talk is taken.