1:00 PM Shakespeare’s Central Tragedies – Evergreen Forum (PSRC)

SHAKESPEARE’S CENTRAL TRAGEDIES

LEADER: Lawrence Danson is professor emeritus of English literature at Princeton University.
TUESDAYS: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., 8 weeks: February 26 through April 16
LOCATION: PSRC

We’ll read—slowly and sympathetically— four of the greatest plays ever written: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear, paying close attention both to language and stage values. We’ll occasionally read passages aloud in class, in order to mine the incredible richness of Shakespeare’s dramatic verse.