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Hands-On Tour: Not Shakespeare, or Shakespeare’s Shadows CANCELLED

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  • January 25, 2019
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This hands-on tour looks at Shakespeare by… not looking at him. In Shakespeare’s Shadows we’ll meet the bard’s equally brilliant contemporaries Miguel de Cervantes and John Donne, his friend and rival Ben Jonson, his collaborator and successor Jon Fletcher, and his most famous forger, Henry Ireland. We’ll also take a look at an early printing of the first woman in England to earn a living as a playwright, the dashing poet, spy, and libertine Aphra Behn.

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Shakespeare Free Read-Aloud Group: Richard III

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  • February 2, 2019
    1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Reading Shakespeare’s plays aloud offers not only a communal way to enjoy these great works but also promotes a deeper understanding of Shakespeare’s poetry and wordplay. No acting experience is required to participate — just bring a copy of the play we’re reading…and your voice!

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Hands-On Tour: Lewis Carroll

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  • April 24, 2019
    6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Mathematician and cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published children’s books under the pen name Lewis Carroll. This tour will explore both the man and the author, drawing on letters from Dodgson to his publishers, original drawings by John Tenniel (the illustrator of the Alice books) photographs of children taken by Carroll, and, of course, copies of his books.

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Course: Pride and Prometheus: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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  • March 26, 2019
    6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
  • April 9, 2019
    6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
  • April 23, 2019
    6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
  • May 7, 2019
    6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
  • May 21, 2019
    6:00 pm - 7:45 pm

This course will explore perhaps the two most popular English language novels of the 19th Century: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Published just five years apart these two novels reflect very different cultural milieu, yet both were trailblazing in their genres. We’ll see how the ideas and cultural events of their shared era resonate throughout both novels and find some points of intersection in their views and perspectives.

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Hands-On Tour: Picturing Cervantes

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  • February 28, 2019
    6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

“Picturing Cervantes” explores the ways Don Quixote has been imagined and illustrated through the centuries, featuring remarkable drawings and prints by notable artists such as Gustave Doré and Honoré Daumier. Explore depictions of the questing Don, his companion Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante from artworks created shortly after the heroic entry of the “Ingenious Gentleman” onto the field of literature, and through the centuries beyond.

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Course: Shakespeare and Identity

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  • March 3, 2019
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • April 7, 2019
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • May 5, 2019
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • June 2, 2019
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This course will consider four plays that foreground issues of gender, sexuality, race, religion, and empire: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Othello, and The Tempest. We will discuss these plays in terms of their historical context, performance history, reception, popular adaptations, and continued resonances with debates about identity, difference, power, and intimacy. In addition, we will see the Lantern Theater Company’s production of Measure for Measure on April 14.

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Shakespeare Free Read-Aloud Group: Measure for Measure

Date / Time

  • March 2, 2019
    1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Reading Shakespeare’s plays aloud offers not only a communal way to enjoy these great works but also promotes a deeper understanding of Shakespeare’s poetry and wordplay. No acting experience is required to participate — just bring a copy of the play we’re reading…and your voice!

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Hands-On Tour: James Joyce & Irish Authors

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  • February 1, 2019
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Along with James Joyce’s handwritten manuscript of his modernist masterpiece Ulysses, we’ll also read and handle works by Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, and more! These Irish authors have connections and influences extending from Thomas Jefferson and Moby-Dick to the present day.

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