# Hope Working Group: Nihilism and Hope in Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Tempest

Hope Working Group: Nihilism and Hope in Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Tempest at University of Westminster, Thursday 12 November 2026, 15:00.

- Venue: University of Westminster
- With: Seán Molloy
- Go to page: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/hope-working-group-nihilism-and-hope-in-shakespeares-macbeth-and-the-tempest

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The Hope Working Group hosts a talk titled "Nihilism and Hope in Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Tempest" at the University of Westminster. The speaker is Seán Molloy, a Reader in International Relations at the University of Kent, who has also taught at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Sussex and published two books. He will discuss nihilism as a question in political thought and explore Shakespeare's articulation of it in Macbeth, before turning to more hopeful responses in The Tempest, where Prospero contrasts with Macbeth.

## Dates

- Thursday 12 November 15:00 — University of Westminster

Written by a model, sources: [westminster.ac.uk](https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/hope-working-group-nihilism-and-hope-in-shakespeares-macbeth-and-the-tempest)

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