Shakespeare for Everyone
Mon, May 19 @ 2:00 pm
Discuss various works from the expansive canon of William Shakespeare.
by William Shakespeare
821 SHAKESPEARE
The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language, Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions–desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same breath. The Sonnets and Other Poems includes all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the long narrative poems “Venus and Adonis” and several other shorter works.
by Judi Dench
BIO - Perform - Actors – DENCH
Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head... These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare. For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra.
by William Shakespeare
822.3 SHAKESPEARE
This complete and unabridged edition contains every word that Shakespeare wrote, all 37 tragedies, comedies, and histories, plus the sonnets. You'll find such classics as The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew.
by Frank Kermode
822.3 KERMODE
The true biography of Shakespeare, and the only one we need to care about, is in his plays. Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished scholar of sixteenth century and seventeenth century literature, has been thinking about Shakespeare's plays all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime of thinking. The finest tragedies written in English were all composed in the first decade of the seventeenth century, and it is generally accepted that the best ones were Shakespeare's. Their language is often difficult, and it must have been hard even for contemporaries to understand. How did this language develop? How did it happen that Shakespeare's audience could appreciate Hamlet at the beginning of the decade and Coriolanus near the end of it?
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