Online Seminar: Shakespeare in Britain / Greece
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Date & Time
Sat, Feb 15 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both
Saturday, February 15, 2025
In the geography of his poetic imagination, Shakespeare seems to find world enough in time — a stage in every age — from the worlds of mythical Greece and the mother of epic, the Trojan War (The Two Noble Kinsmen and Troilus and Cressida) to Britain before Merlin (King Lear) to the “pale fire” of Roman Greece (Timon of Athens) to the warped world of pagan Roman Britain (Cymbeline) to the zany (and not-so-) world of Mediterranean sea change (The Comedy of Errors and Pericles) to the “fog and filthy air” of medieval Scotland (Macbeth) to a world of Elizabethan goodwives that somehow includes Falstaff (The Merry Wives of Windsor). In these plays, the poet’s constant themes are love, betrayal, identity, disguise, given in about as many combinations and permutations as one could wish, romantic, comic, tragic, and blends thereof.
February 15 Reading:
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
Pelican, Arden, or any standard edition with act, scene, and line numbers will work well
Schedule:
12:00-2:00PM PST
Tutors:
Eric Stull and Jordan Hoffman
Location:
Online. Register to receive the link.